This has certainly been the summer of travel. Whether for work or fun or some combination of the two, I have visited the beach, New York, Washington, and Los Angeles in the past two months.
I traveled to the last destination just last week for a conference, which luckily included a bunch of free time [...]

Since we are getting closer to celebrating our 15th anniversary, it’s pretty obvious my wife and I are pretty compatible.
We do have a lot of the same interests, but just enough different ones to give each of us an opportunity to have some alone time. But when we went on our recent trip to Washington, [...]

Maria and I went on a trip recently. Nothing fancy, just a weekend in Washington, D.C., to see some tennis and have a celebration for our 15th anniversary a couple of months early.
As is our usual custom, we flew by the seat of our pants for most of our plans. That meant enjoying lunch [...]

Nothing makes me happier than coming home at the end of a hard day and seeing my wife and daughter. We really have a lot of fun together.
But when I get a chance to have the house all to myself for three days, I’m not going to turn that down.
Maria and Bridget went to visit [...]

I had enough to worry about on my wedding day. I had a family full of people who could embarrass me at the drop of a hat. My best man had an incriminating picture hidden in his tuxedo jacket that he kept threatening to show my wife. I didn’t need the celebrant losing track of [...]

Most sports fans know that one of the saddest things you can ever witness is a great champion not knowing when it’s time to step aside.
Not many athletes step aside at the top of their game. The yearly intrigue of whether certain players will retire has almost become a punch line in some circles.
Yeah, I’m [...]

Ordinarily, I like change. I think fighting the inevitable flow of life simply makes people upset for no good reason.
Sometimes this means letting go of the things we hold near and dear to our hearts, but that’s the price we pay for living in this modern world. As with most things, however, [...]

Apparently Apple released some sort of new phone the other day. I think I heard about it because people were camped out in front of stores hours before they opened to get the new product.
I may be wrong though because I think these Apple people were camped out in front of stores a few weeks [...]

I had lunch with several people from work last week, and we discussed our plans for the upcoming weekend. One friend shared what she had on tap, and I almost lost my mind.
At first, I felt angry. Then I worried for her sanity. I finally settled on a healthy case of arrogance [...]

I recently found myself in a bit of a reading rut. I have managed to stay ahead of the pace I hoped for – I like to read at least 12 books a year – but have had problems with some of the things I read.
I found myself under whelmed with back-to-back novels. [...]