Happy New Year

Well, it's 2008 and we're plugging along here.

The only New Year's resolution I'm making is to keep working hard to avoid corporate-speak and be responsible and accountable for my own actions & words.

I can't help, after a vacation with some time to reflect, thinking again about how if you rip the lid off of any corporation, all you find is people.

The company itself is just a legal fiction, and it's made up of human beings.

As we move through this ambitious project here at Vino Veritas, it's my responsibility to have conversations with both our vendors and our customers-to-be in ways that respect their own humanity, and my own as well.

Here's to an open, honest and productive 2008!