Jeff Mahoney

2 weeks ago | rethinking65.com | Jeff Mahoney

I recently sent an email to clients and prospects with the subject line “Saturday Morning Musings — Who’s making the call if you can’t?”It’s not the kind of email designed to generate clicks through flashy headlines or clever subject lines. In fact, it asked readers to consider something most of us avoid: What happens if you can’t speak for yourself? In the email, I briefly explained two essential documents: the Power of Attorney (POA) and Healthcare Directive.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

It’s where word, story and visual art come together to work and play, in a popular way. Popular as in, of the people, not the salon. And it’s visual art often in its basic form of deliberately creative markings on surfaces, howsoever unpolished, but, just as often, sophisticated. Let’s just call it cartoons/comics. But do call it, Ivan Kocmarek urges. Call it to the table of memory, respect, cultural appreciation and art history.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

We’re approaching that seasonal sweet spot when the weather here is about as perfect as it gets and our gardens of young people, the flowers of the future we’re supposed to cultivate, bloom with the newly graduated. University students ceremoniously throw up their mortarboards, like happy prayers to the heavens. High school students less ceremoniously throw up the contents of their prom night stomachs, like the wages of sin, over fairy-tale chiffon and crushed velvet outfits.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

The party is preserved! The tailgate variety, I mean. So shine your lamp upon our black-and-gold painted faces. Victory, ring your bells from the highest steeples. Let the word go forth in the land. Somewhere right now, a man is sitting on the bumper of his car, shirt off, dabbing away a tear of relief and triumph, then cracking open a cold one from the brewski cooler in his trunk.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Jeff Mahoney

Last December, when the deal expired on the naming rights to our beloved football building/beer-tent-with-bathrooms (Oskee has to Wee Wee after a few), Tim Hortons decided to punt. “No, thanks” to freshening up the licensing agreement. As much as they may have liked to watch that movie again, they returned the video. Be kind. Rewind. Back where we started. I guess they looked at the cost-benefit horizon. Third down and … well, tariffs. Market upheaval. A long, long yardage of economic uncertainty.