Protecting Those Who Promote You —Cagle

As a subthought, I vow to take advantage of as many marketing opportunities as I can.

• In 2008, I resolve not to have my car stolen. Last summer I lost my beloved Intrepid to the mean streets of Philadelphia. It went missing on my last day at work before a week of vacation in Ocean City, MD.

Then, while at the beach, we received a message that a girl from my daughter’s kindergarten class had been killed in an auto accident. And I had to explain death—a concept I still don’t fully understand—to a five-year-old girl. It was a tough summer, to say the least.