2012-09-13 16:28
Whenever I attend company meetings, they usually begin with some sort of icebreaker, but, most often they are just led off with a simple introduction consisting of your name, position, and y… Read More
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I think I'm enlightened. I think I'm educated. And I have read more books than most that explain the rules of engagement on raising two healthy, happy girls.
But obviously, they've not read the same books...
2012-09-04 13:12
I’m not certain if you’ve noticed, but there is an election happening soon. That means three things are unavoidable truths in our daily lives for a while: an endless stream of na… Read More
2012-09-04 13:12
There are words I have started to avoid. They are words I have come to think of in an entirely different way than I did for much of my life. Maybe it’s simply my maturity, or maybe it… Read More
2012-09-04 13:10
My older daughter, Megan, recently turned sixteen. That can be a somewhat bittersweet birthday for a father, or any parent for that matter.On the one hand you have a milestone birthday which… Read More
2012-09-04 13:08
Lately I’ve been spending some time browsing on the Harley Davidson website and daydreaming about a purchase I would like to make next spring. Telling you that makes me feel like I sho… Read More
2012-01-16 05:26
And there it was: that little signal. It came from one of the least suspected places, a handcrafted sign being held by a fellow Occupy activist. Later I would learn this person did not inten… Read More
2011-10-17 22:31
Yesterday morning, quietly and peacefully, and on one of the most beautiful summer mornings I think we've had in a while, my father ended his long battle with cancer. He beat it back into re… Read More
2011-08-28 19:59
I was digging around in some old boxes the other day, in search of something I just knew I had stashed and kept somewhere for safekeeping because I knew I would surely want to have it as a m… Read More
2011-08-28 19:57
As I write this, I am sitting a few feet away from my father, who is resting somewhat comfortably in his hospital bed. I’m not sure anyone can really rest very well in such a bed; what… Read More
2011-08-28 19:55
A few weeks ago, I went home to Kansas City for a week, to spend time with family, with Bill and Mary, and with a couple of hundred other friends who were all converging there for a wee… Read More
2011-08-28 19:53
The question that Robert posed to me that afternoon on the golf course—repeated to me, actually—was probably typical fare for two guys out on the fairways and greens for a day.&l&hell…Read More
2011-08-28 19:51
I had lunch today with Lauren, a young girl with whom I used to work at my part time job. She had recently posted some disappointing news, and it reminded me that we had not seen each other… Read More
2011-08-28 19:51
I like to read a lot, and in the summertime my reading trends toward the lighter fare, my choices usually ending up being non-fiction, adventure pieces. Lately I have been reading several bo… Read More
2011-08-28 19:49
What if we could, when it matters most, suspend our disbelief in order to see things with more clarity?Doing so is difficult. Take, for instance, the philosophical theory about the differenc… Read More
2011-08-28 19:48
Last fall, not long after the school year began, a text message from Megan woke me up in the middle of the day and split me in two.“a kid is threatening to blow up the school…im… Read More
2011-08-28 19:45
Somewhere in our lives, at the point where the lofty trajectories of our hopes, our expectations, and our affections cross, lie our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of those close to us… Read More
2011-08-28 19:44
Of all the most gratifying things in my life, the accumulation of knowledge and tools to be able to fix virtually all things a homeowner might encounter ranks near the top. I’ve owned… Read More
2011-08-28 19:43
I was speaking with a friend whose life is going through a bit of an upheaval. They’ve begun the long and tedious task of putting their life under a microscope, identifying the pieces… Read More
2011-08-28 19:38
Michelle and I were driving Kylee to a doctor’s appointment the other day, and on the way there we were trying to complete one of those detailed questionnaires often required with ever… Read More
2011-08-28 19:37
The other night I went out for a run, a test run of sorts; I wanted to see just how far I was capable of running with my current conditioning, and check how I was recovering from some recent… Read More
2011-08-28 19:35
Grief is odd. It is disturbing to feel, to experience, and it is often difficult for many to just be near. It makes people uncomfortable speaking about it; we are sometimes not really sure w… Read More
2010-10-24 17:33
Not One.Not one single name did I know, or even recognize, in the list of names that I was reading, but I could still feel something for each and every one of them. Something painful. It ema… Read More
2010-09-26 23:29
I wondered if Kim was catching me stealing glances down the row of manicured back lawns that stretched down the block. “Kim is a friend,” I thought to myself. She gets it.Her kid… Read More
2010-08-02 01:06
This will sound a little odd to say, but I have been to Beverly’s basement, and I have to admit that I was a little touched by it. Normally, visiting someone’s basement is not ne… Read More
2010-06-15 16:46
How would you like to hear a 3200 word, step-by-step recounting of my run in the Dam to Dam 20k over the last two years?I didn’t think so. But, that was exactly what I was about to inf… Read More
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