by Toby | Mar 26, 2014 | Charlotte, family, Featured, Laughs and Strange Things, Toby
My mother calls and once I pick up the phone she asks, “Can you put Charlotte Emma on, please?” I call out into the depths of the house, “Charlotte! The phone is for you.” Something that I seriously did not expect to find myself saying, at...
by Toby | Mar 25, 2014 | Featured, Laughs and Strange Things
I have always liked a good mental game, so I thought I’d share this one that I saw on Facebook. It is so simple, yet it took me a minute to figure out the answer. I was stuck on what I believe should be the issue, but in reality the answer was elsewhere. In...
by Toby | Sep 30, 2012 | Laughs and Strange Things, Toby
This week the topic for Friday Haiku’s at Mannix Marketing was “playground”. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it as I had a lunch appointment, so I went in empty handed when I returned to the office. I was handed a pen and paper and on the...
by Toby | Sep 21, 2012 | Laughs and Strange Things, Toby
This weeks Haiku fun at Mannix Marketing was on the subject “Fall”. I came up with three ditty’s this time. Haiku 1 Green to Golden Brown, Colors mixing become the palette of the world. Haiku 2 Dropping down from high, Falling in September mild;...
by Toby | Sep 14, 2012 | Laughs and Strange Things
Every Friday lunchtime at the main Mannix Marketing office in Glens Falls, NY a bunch of the team members get together to partake in a little poetry fun with Fraiku Friday – Haiku on Friday! This week was my first real go. And it was fun… First a little...
by Toby | Jan 6, 2011 | Laughs and Strange Things
A man is at Grand Central Station waiting for his train which leaves at 6:00 PM but he has forgotten his watch. So he looks for someone to ask the time. He spots this guy walking past carrying 2 suitcases and sporting this fabulous hi-tech watch, so he asks him for...