My column is very late and production is getting squirrely. This is predictable. When you don't write a column, you think, "If I only had somewhere to express all these wonderful thoughts and ideas!" When it's your platform, however, every word is agony.

My first PRWeek column was published on September 30, 2002, rife with references to Enron and WorldCom. My focus is more local now, as I think about how fortunate the PR industry is to have this group ...