Category: Thoughts
New Year's Eve celebrations come in all kinds of styles. I've had two very different sets of experiences on New Year's Eve that can be clearly split into before and after kids.
I was convinced, as a child, that I would never marry. My plan was to have a pick-up truck like my grandpa, an ohio farmer, and live in the mountains out west. There was gold to be found there and I wouldn’t need a regular job. Nor would I need a lot of friends because […]
Everything this a preschooler does or experiences can be dramatic at times but this episode was different. There was an exhibited fear that I'd never seen before in Mr. Dude. He was more than uncomfortable. He was deeply frightened. I don't know if there was a spider back there or not, but to him there was a spider back there on the window. The truth for him was that what may have in reality been dirt on the window was out to get him.
My extended family has some stories. Not all of them are the funny, light hearted things you might want to share with strangers at parties to break the ice. They are the sorts of things we don’t talk about. Not with each other let alone with the public. There were choices made that could have […]
I love my wife. She’s amazing. Life hasn’t exactly been fair to her, but she keeps an amazingly positive attitude about it. She’s my best friend and I love her more than life itself. Abigail travels for work so there are times we go days without seeing each other. Mr. Dude (our three year old […]
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I look forward to attending the Dad 2.0 Summit every year. It has been a great experience each time I’ve attended. The chance to meet fellow bloggers, marketers and industry experts is unparalleled for the price point. My first summit was like a reunion with all these guys I’d talked to online, but had never […]
My wife and I signed up for a trial of Netflix during the winter storm that shut down most of Chicago for a couple of days back in 2011. We were snowed in, had plenty of food and wanted to try something new. Five years later we're still using Netflix to pass the time with or without snow on the ground.
I spent nine hours in the car on my birthday last month between 3:00 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. due to a family emergency. My father-in-law was in his last hours and my wife needed to be there with him. I picked her up from the airport and drove the 70 some odd miles through rush hour traffic […]