Thursday, 05 January 2012 14:19 Written by Cameron Strang

It was early 2005 when I received an email from Scott Harrison. He was about to turn 30, and though I didn’t know him, he was clearly at a crossroads in his life.

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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 16:06 Written by Cameron Strang

New Orleans is an odd city. It’s as if, at one point a long time ago, someone who made important decisions just stopped and said: You know what? City planning isn’t worth the hassle. A typical block goes like this: historical building, bar, empty lot, business, abandoned home, historical building, bar, empty lot. Repeat a thousand times, and you have New Orleans.

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Thursday, 01 September 2011 00:00 Written by Cameron Strang

It seems like every decade or so, a label gets applied to a generation that’s fairly permanent. In the late ‘60s and ’70s, dirty hippies ushered in an era of protests and social change. In the ’80s, everyone started looking like Ferris Bueller or Alex P. Keaton, and a Reaganomics-fueled booming economy turned things pretty materialistic and me-focused. In the ’90s, Gen X rebuff ed those values and everyone became flannel-wearing slackers that listened to Pearl Jam.

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Wednesday, 06 July 2011 14:41 Written by Cameron Strang

In March 2008, I got an unexpected email from author Rick Warren inviting me to go to Africa with him. The catch? I had to leave in five days.

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Friday, 04 February 2011 09:28 Written by Cameron Strang

Thoughts from Feb. 3’s National Prayer Breakfast

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Tuesday, 04 January 2011 17:41 Written by Cameron Strang

I’m not really one for New Year’s resolutions. Invariably, the Bally membership goes unused, coffee becomes a daily habit again and the pre-bedtime routine drifts back to watching Seinfeld instead of reading two books a week.

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Friday, 05 November 2010 15:52 Written by Cameron Strang

“So, I have an idea to make a magazine just like RELEVANT. How’d you do it? Is there a book? Where’d you get money?” Those rapid-fire questions were the first words out of his mouth after we shook hands.
It wasn’t that this college student was wanting my help to make a magazine “just like RELEVANT“ that got me (they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess). I can overlook the fact he was wanting my help to make a competitor.

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Thursday, 01 July 2010 15:26 Written by Cameron Strang

It was April when, in passing, I asked the head of a nonprofit that’s doing a lot of work in Haiti how things were going there. The look on his face said everything.

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