International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo

The Unfolding Process
This edition of the WaterShapes newsletter is appearing on the opening day of the International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo.  By that Wednesday, I will have been in New Orleans for two days - and will have landed late enough on Monday evening that I will have missed all of the Hallowe'en festivities. That's fine by me:  I've been in New Orleans for three
Mission: New Orleans
My bags aren't quite packed yet, but I'm already excited about hitting the road for New Orleans and the International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo during the first week of November.  As I've written in previous blogs in advance of the show, I always look forward to these events - and I have to confess that I'm particularly pleased when
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An Expo with a Difference
A couple weeks back, I was figuring that my time at the 2015 edition of the International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo would be quite routine - visiting with old friends, making a few new ones, catching up with our sponsors and recruiting several more. But those easy expectations all changed shortly before the show when the announcement came, first through
A Personal Invitation
I have two very special reasons for inviting you to stop by the WaterShapes booth during this year's International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo in Las Vegas:   [  ]  First, I want to talk with you about the WaterShapes Professional Network and all of the reasons you should sign up right away.  As a minor barrage of emails advised last month, we're on
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Through a Glass, Brightly
This edition of my blog is a bit of an out-of-body experience.  I usually write these essays no more than a few hours before each WaterShapes newsletter is released -  probably a vestige of my time at Pool & Spa News, where I put off writing my every-issue column until the very last minute so it would
Hitting the Road
It's that time of year again:  I've started organizing the things I'll be bringing to Orlando for the 2014 International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo, and I'm getting close to hopping on the plane and fly to what I've long seen as an odd sort of family reunion. I haven't been to Orlando in quite a while, so I'm taking an extra day while I'm there to get out and about.  As I mentioned in a recent Travelogue, I plan on a return visit to
Paying It Forward
While I was in Las Vegas at the International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo, a young gentleman I'd never met before approached the booth and asked, "So what's the difference between Essential and Platinum Reflections?" "That's simple," I replied, pointing out that Essentials in the twice-monthly WaterShapes EXTRA newsletter are articles I see as being must reading for anyone who