Morning ritual
Wake up to NPR's Morning Edition, a half hour on the elliptical, read print edition of local daily, sync schedules with the family. If I don't have a breakfast meeting, it's peanut butter toast and a protein shake for the road.

Required reading (print, blogs, etc.)
The local dailies, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fast Company, Fortune, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Splendid Table's weekly e-letter, and Padilla's blog.  

First PR job
PR specialist with Burlington Northern (now ...