October 1, 2019
As I’m contemplating this editorial in mid-August, my kids are making the most of the final days of summer. While neither is champing at the bit to go back to school, they started asking about school shopping weeks ago. There’s just something about all those new pens, backpacks and notebooks that signals a fresh start …
August 1, 2019
The bad news (and some good news) about career paths and aging. It was on the eve of my birthday, while sitting in rush hour traffic, that an NPR segment gave me the really bad news: My professional decline has already started. The interviewee, social scientist Arthur C. Brooks, was discussing his personal research project, …
June 1, 2019
As space tourism becomes a reality, the wedding industry won’t be far behind. I’m going on record with an out-of-this-world prediction: The cover photo of the June 2035 issue of InTents will show a tented wedding on Mars. Let me explain. I’ve had two topics floating around my head recently: tented weddings and space exploration. …
April 1, 2019
Ideas and inspiration from Tent Expo 2019 Sunny Orlando, Fla., and cozy flannel shirts don’t seem like they go together. But that’s how Tent Rental Division (TRD) Steering Committee members and IFAI staffers honored our friend Tom Markel, who passed away in December (see page 10). Tom and his flannel shirts and baseball caps were …
December 1, 2018
Tell InTents about the inventory, tools and services your business depends on. I love to cook, but I’m not a fan of most kitchen gadgets. If I’m going to make room in my kitchen for a new tool, it has to serve multiple purposes, not take up too much space and help me perform tasks …
October 1, 2018
The tent and event industry may be male dominated, but it offers exceptional opportunities for women to succeed. The wedding industry tends to garner a lot of negative headlines and jokes. (Bridezillas! Ugly bridesmaid dresses! Cheesy wedding songs!) But in a recent column in the Washington Post, essayist Gretchen Comcowich summed up one of the …
August 1, 2018
Why you should stop subscribing to InTents and join TRD. If you are a member of IFAI’s Tent Rental Division (TRD), you have my permission to turn the page and dive into the rest of this issue. If you own or work for a tent rental company that subscribes to InTents but isn’t a TRD …
June 1, 2018
Amid controversies, quitting social media may sound nice, but is it realistic? Sometimes I feel like I’m driving my 2008 Subaru Forester in the slow vehicle lane and the rest of the world is zooming by me in a sports car. This is especially true when managing the deadlines and required lead-time of a bimonthly …
April 1, 2018
InTents is turning 25—and with the help of our readers, we’re awarding the manufacturers and suppliers that advance the industry. Where was your business in 1992? Are you among the InTents readers whose companies were already more than 100 years old? Or in the early 1990s, was your business only pipe dream—or maybe not even …
December 1, 2017
Vote in December for the industry’s best products and services in the InTents Reader’s Choice Awards. The April-May 2010 issue of InTents was my first as editor, and it featured some impressive tenting—most notably the structures installed for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. But there was a bigger story in that issue, …