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“I Was So Happy With My Dad That Night!”

Life is about perspective and how you view it over the long haul. Ultimately, you have to zoom out. — Tim McGraw At some point, all of us lose someone close to us.  It is an unfortunate, and sometimes tragic,…

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“Now I Don’t Even Feel the Sting!”

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.  One fails forward toward success. –C.S. Lewis It was quite possibly the largest underground bees nest I had ever seen.  Right under a huge root in the cherry tree in my…

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“Don’t You Need to Go Home to Your Family?”

The wheel has come full circle. –William Shakespeare My parents recently made the difficult move from their ancestral farmhouse in New Hampshire to an assisted living facility in the Washington, DC area.  Change of this magnitude is never easy, and…

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The Road Trip from Hell

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind, that determines which way we will go in life.  –Jim Rohn The day started off so perfectly.  A beautiful, crisp Christmas morning.  Presents under the tree.  Delicious…

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Everybody Love Everybody!

E.L.E. –Jackie Moon I’ll just come out and say it.  We never really got along with our next door neighbors.  No, not The Quinns. C’mon.  We love them, of course!  The ones on the other side.  It’s hard to pinpoint…

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“This Dude Was NOT Wearing a Costume!”

In the go-go days of the internet at the turn of the millennium, I worked for DoubleClick, a pioneering internet advertising company based in New York City. Fun, sometimes irreverent, and always entertaining, DoubleClick had many time-honored traditions.  But none…

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Don’t Yell at the Burrito Delivery Guy!

A recent conversation recounting the number of odd jobs we all worked in college sparked a trip down memory lane. These cash-only, under-the-table jobs were a rite of passage and a source of great pride and amusement in retrospect.  Bouncer….

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“Would You Like to Join Our Table?”

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important. –Simon Sinek My parents are both in their 90s and, until very recently, lived on their own in a large farm house up in New…

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