Make a list—it should be fun. Traditions big or small, carried on or long passed, old/new/borrowed/blue. Traditions beget memories and memories bring feelings of structure. How many of the things...
Truly Funny: Miller I was visiting my outlandish brother, Miller, not long after he moved to Florida when we went to the dealer to pick up his new Volkswagen Beetle...
My son was wheeled into recovery from an anesthetized colonoscopy. As he returned to consciousness, he looked up at the nurse, asked her for a date, then proceeded to fart...
My first visit to Walmart's hometown in Arkansas was in the '90s. I remember a classic southern small-town square and a Walmart buyer who turned a 15-minute timer on me...
I spent time with a childhood friend, who has been in private banking his entire career who told me about his client who was also his doctor doing an exam...
There are many phrases I attribute to my mom and among my favorites is, “laughter is medicine for your soul”. Throughout my lifetime, I’ve added a few more “pills” I try...
After November's election, I dedicated significant resources—time and money—to learning about "undocumented" immigrants. Our foundation avoids advocacy in favor of action. We are now in our ninth month of researching...
Truly Funny: Sales Coach Long ago, I was working with a sales coach who taught me two considerations, so true that the observations made me laugh. I’ve followed his two...
This month's book recommendation, by Brad Feld, is a guide for building community. Brad tracks decades of work that led Boulder, Colorado to become a "Silicon Valley" community in a...
