The Shunpike
Cory VAOpinions from a New England-based PR agency owner on work, parenting, and the outdoor industry.
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A PR Agency COO
My oldest son is a bit of a bibliophile and loves to read almost anything he can get his hands on. Recently, he was drawing a shark at my desk and saw a stack of newly printed business cards with my name on them. He took one out, flipped it...
Wicked Easy Camping
Over the Fourth of July weekend, we packed the boys into the Subaru and shunpiked our way up to Wolfe’s Neck Campground. Here we spent three nights camping on the Maine coast, just a 15-minute drive from L.L.Bean’s headquarters.
On this ca...
Breaking Into Outdoor Industry PR
As Darby Communications opens applications for our next Account Coordinator position, I'm reminiscing about the hundreds of interviews we’ve conducted over the years.
A couple of years back, a former college football coach looked at us thr...
Kilts on the Cop Slide
Last week, we flew home from visiting family in Florida. As we touched down in Boston, my oldest was the first to notice something wonderful was afoot. The airport was inundated by kilt-wearing, tartan-adorned Scotsmen. The Tartan Army had...
Your Company Was in the Paper
Every Wednesday, on the way to school, my boys and I stop at my grandfather’s for breakfast. My dad swings by too, on his way to work. Four generations of Van Auken dudes around Grandpa’s kitchen table, eating muffins, drinking coffee, or m...
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A New England-based PR agency owner (Darby Communications) working in the outdoor industry. Waxing poetic on work, parenting, shunpiking, and being outside.
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