
A Letter to My Teenage Princess

To my teenage princess,
As usual, I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. And so, here’s one of those “Dad” letters that I hope makes sense. Continue reading
(2/24) Lessons My Running Shoes Have Taught Me

Before You Hit Submit

My children will never understand life without the Internet.
For them, the immediacy, scope and truly world-wide nature of the web is commonplace. And as is always the case, with technological shifts and advancement, comes its effects on many other seemingly unrelated areas. Continue reading
(2/17) The Power of Adding Two Words: “So That”

(2/3) I Hear Voices

Just Don’t Freak Out…Something’s Happening

Sometimes the best thing that can happen is exactly what we don’t want to have happen.
It’s been my experience that disappointments have a way of internally refining us far more than met desires do…if we let them.
We don’t have to like when it happens this way. We certainly don’t wish for it. But as long as we don’t freak out when it does happen, we can emerge on the other side, better for it.
In what can only be describes as a paradox, sometimes the thing that makes us better, is, at least initially or longer, the thing we don’t see or understand.
Hang in there. It’s a process. There’s more happening than you and I can know.
An Open Letter to Famous Younger People

It’s the same song, just with different verses.
One by one they hit life’s stage, play to mass appeal, then things shift. Continue reading
(1/27) Decreasing Dumb Decisions

The Public Speaking Waltz (Verse 2)

I mentioned it in the first post of The Public Speaking Waltz, but it’s worth repeating… nerves are an expected, normal part of speaking in front of an audience. If you’re a speaker and you’re not a bit nervous before delivering your message, it’s probably time to stretch yourself with developing a new talk. Continue reading