Moments July 28, 2021 I’m doing my best to focus and stay efficient. Three screens going. A dozen apps apping away. Windows open since we’ve no A/C. 90 F outside. Lots of lists and timelines and spreadsheets. We all have multiple acre “yards” of forest, grasses, cactus and wildflowers up here. My neighbor friend Paul … [read more]
Memoir
Three Bows to 2020
Three Bows to 2020 I loved 2020. I know that beggars popular orthodoxy, but it is so true. And it may trigger some of you. I apologize for that. You have a right to be indignant about 2020. I do feel deeply for all the pain and loss everyone is suffering. But for me, personally, … [read more]
Me and Jeff and Shawn
Me and Jeff and Shawn Geoff O’Keeffe On Friday, April 14, 2000, I was attending a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas at, if I recall, Paris, Paris. The other tacky theme hotels must have been booked. The topic of the conference was multi-channel retail, being the strategy for a big retailer to have a … [read more]
Rodeo Sisters
Rodeo Sisters -Geoff O’Keeffe 10.03.20 I’ve slept outdoors hundreds, perhaps thousands of nights. We began as kids and would lay a tarp in the yard in the summertime with our rectangular sleeping bags with flannel deer and pine tree linings, dozing under the desert stars for weeks at a time. A little older, I spent … [read more]
Joe The Pro
Jerome and Geoff, Shanghai Joe The China Pro Geoff O’Keeffe September 22, 2020 Jerome and I shared an approach to dealing with the seventy factories and hundreds of owners, managers and developers we were responsible for working with from Shanghai to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh to Manila, Hong Kong to Bangladesh, and all points in … [read more]
Hồng Hà
October 2010 Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe Old Hanoi celebrates one thousand years on these muddy banks. Palm trees drip condensed fog, reflected in the glassy lake. The city oozes sticky humid haze. Scooters and motorbikes surge like salmon spawn. Everyone but me has thick black hair and dark eyes. I am conspicuous by size and … [read more]