It’s a Saturday morning here in Northern California. Autumn is in the air and the locals are enjoying the bounty provided by Mother Nature as of late. Merchant doors are swinging in both directions, people are smiling and the days of relaxing on Dillon Beach are beginning to fade into the memory banks, unless of [...]
It’s seven-thirty in the morning and a weekend morning to boot and the one place I ought to be is now vacant and needs to be made. Uggh. What in the world am I doing awake? Only several hours ago I sit on the same couch I watched the SOX/NYY game from during a disappointing [...]
I mentioned to the wine-tender in Sausalito yesterday that “sixteen years ago today we were giving birth” and she shot me a quizzical look followed by the comment “We? I know you had something to do with it on the front end, but really, ‘we’?” The last thing any of us needed was my response [...]
The forty hours a week is for work – the customer – the professional mindset and the satisfaction you create by doing a job well done during each of those eight hours a day. The weekend however is for you, your family, your projects and your soul. The weekend, as we all realize is much too [...]
LUCK. One of those attributes you either have or you don’t. Period. Some folks say you make your own luck. I think it’s part of your DNA makeup. One of those sayings I’ve heard, and even said a number of times, particularly as a lifelong, died-in-the-wool Boston Red Sox fan is “if it wasn’t for [...]
PARENTING. If you’ve been an active reader of this blog you’d know by now I live with three women and a female bulldog. Trapped? Hardly. We’ve taught the Lu-dog to watch and enjoy the New England Patriots on Sunday afternoons, she’s become accustomed to the ranting and raving when the Bruins score (though that’s been [...]
Perhaps it’s just me. I’m sure that’s the case, hell, it’s always been the case, but I have a medium here and I’m darn sure going to use it as my Friday afternoon sun begins to diminish and the beer intake continues to increase. I am a Bostonian through and through – my blogs normally [...]
It was Good Friday yesterday. The students were all excused from training to conduct an Earth Day clean up - and I can tell you they did not catch any slack - those kids worked their butts off clearing out, pruning, raking, and general pick up. The campus is in excess of 8000 acres, complete [...]
Writing a blog each morning requires me to pay close attention to what is going on in our house each day. I look for triggers that will help me get words on paper each morning. As many of you know I do not generate a blog during the weekend as the house is normally teeming [...]