As someone who takes a walk almost every day, I'm no stranger to its fitness benefits and other positive attributes. I love this quote about walking by the writer, Kenneth Grahame, 1959-1932, who's perhaps best known for his classic children's book, The Wind in the Willows. Clearly, Grahame relished being outside in the elements and appreciated the importance of his daily constitutional. Thought I'd share his words here to remind us all to get up from our desks, take a breather and put the day into wider perspective. 

Media. It’s one of those words that is now used so often by so many types of marketing and advertising companies, that its meaning has become murky. A media agency can be anything from a web development company to a platform like Facebook to a digital marketing company to an old-fashioned print magazine. For our purposes, we’ll define media as the main means of mass communication — broadcasting, publishing, radio, billboards and the internet, to name a few — regarded collectively. In other words, media includes all of the various platforms and channels you might use to present your message in an advertising campaign.

Up here along the New Hampshire border, winter often forces us to endure bone-chillingly low temperatures. The past week or so has been a particularly cold stretch with thermometers struggling to rise above zero degrees much of the time.