I’m constantly experimenting with tools, systems, and routines to try to improve my quality of life. As 2021 is coming to a close, I thought I’d write a little update on what worked for me this past year. The following … Read More
Takeaways Twelve Months into a Pandemic and Post Texas Blizzard of 2021 Gotcha. You thought this was going to be a feel-good piece. Think again… My grandparents mostly raised me. I grew up hearing stories of the great depression. During … Read More
A review on my chaotic yet productive 2020 As I sat down to write my personal tradition for this year-end review, I’m filled with an overwhelming feeling of gratitude. Probably more than usual. This past year, so many people worldwide … Read More
Have you ever questioned the common cliched of “go with your strengths?” I have. I still do. In fact, my most common belief is that I want to do exactly the things that I think are my weakness because I … Read More
I have a confession. I’m addicted to my iPhone. Not just the kind of addicted where I check Facebook several times a day and spend close to an hour or so reading craziness on WSJ and CNBC before I have … Read More
I’ve lived 64 years now and have been married once, had one child, and the rest has gone by so fast it is a blur… That’s a direct quote. Directly from a journal entry that my mother had written as … Read More
A Life of Meaning I recently stumbled across the greatness that is The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The book is a genius level account of Alexander’s experience in the Soviet Gulag prison labor camps of the 20th century where … Read More
Life is great, but man is it flying by. Nowhere is that more evident than when I take a second to stop and look at my son Adrian. We were playing last weekend, and I looked down at those little … Read More
My Apology Not sure why these posts usually turn into an exercise in self-loathing over how silly I spent some part of the first 40 years of my life, but they continue to do so. Spoiler alert: this one is … Read More
The Junior High Years… My son Adrian started the 7th grade this year. The middle year of junior high, the year where you’re not the big kid on campus, but you don’t catch wedgies all day because you’re a foot … Read More