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How We’ve Screwed Up Parenting – Reason #243

My good friend Dave sent this to me this morning. I laughed so hard I almost went into convulsions.

Source: SMBC

Still a Father, But Not a “Daddy” Any More

When recently watching a father play with his small child, it occurred to me that while I’ll always be a father and hope to remain a “dad,” I’m not a “daddy” any more and I kinda miss that. My kids will turn 20 and 18 this year. They’re adults. They rely on me [...]

Yes, the US “Won” the Winter Olympics

37 medals, count ‘em. More than the US has ever won in the Winter Olympics (the previous US record was 34 in 2002 in Salt Lake); the first time the country has won the medal count since 1932 in Lake Placid; and more medals than any other country in the history [...]

Startup Visa – Time to Wake Up, America

Don’t even get me started about the sorry state of American technological and economic competitiveness and our complete ignorance of what really made the US a great and growing country since it’s inception. We are so caught up with balancing what is politically correct, what is politically achievable and not disrupting paths to [...]

Different Perspectives. Marital Bliss.

A few days after my wife and I recently celebrated our 21st anniversary we spent about a week in the Dominican Republic with our kids and some friends.  One night, I found myself mesmerized by this fountain (blurry picture above).  As I sat with a drink in hand staring at it, I was [...]

Forget Esperanto, the Village People are the True Int’l Language

I spent the commencement of the new decade with my family and friends on the beaches of the Dominican Republic.  We had a terrific time.  Not only because it was 85 degrees instead of 25, as it was back home, but because of the surprising variety of interesting people who stayed at the [...]

Hey Service Providers: I’m Givin’ You One Chance to do the Right Thing

Is service continuing to go downhill or am I just getting more picky?  You’d think in a problematic economy, service – just about the easiest thing to quickly improve and adapt – would be great almost everywhere one turns.   After all, it’s an easy differentiator.  I just don’t see it.  In fact, even [...]

My Life Has Changed Forever

I was completely blind-sided.  I thought I was prepared, but I was so very wrong.  It was just going to be another step like any of the infinite others that define parenting and the relationship between a parent and a child.  A father and a son.  I’m so naive.  A few weeks ago [...]

Old School Weather Forecasting

Even though I’m a boater, I generally ignore weather forecasts.  Not they they aren’t important, but in my experience they’re frequently inaccurate or, at least imprecise.  I find myself often waiting around for the forecasted inclement weather to happen, blowing off whatever I had planned for the time.  Unfortunately, it often doesn’t show [...]

My Annual Summer Injury

I spend most summers with my family on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.  This year, we haven’t spent much time at the “Lake,” but this hasn’t disrupted my pattern of yearly visits to the local hospital in Wolfeboro.  There was the summer with the broken neck (a smith machine fell over on me [...]