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First Blog Post for The Resilient Worker
It was another glorious weekend on the East Coast, and the perfect opportunity to get outside and play some golf (before settling into watching football and other such important weekend activities!). So I headed out to the links with a…
Earn the right to be proud and confident. –John Wooden As a GenX risk-taker, I had tried all the adrenaline junkie activities. Hang gliding. Parasailing. Bungee-jumping. Zip-lining. But the crown jewel, skydiving, had eluded me for years. Finally, in my…
Well, it finally happened. After years of consciously staying above the fray, I finally caved. With so much negative swirl in the media, I have avoided pouring over the editorial sections of major newspapers. Not exactly a breeding ground for…
It’s okay to have personal ambitions. But you have to take someone with you. –Roger Staubach It’s Christmas in July here at The Resilient Worker! I have vowed to listen to more podcasts on the weekends, having fallen sharply out…
My wife and I had the incredible pleasure of traveling to the West Coast last week. But during our trip, the coronavirus pandemic and corresponding hysteria swept the nation and the world. Each day, the news got exponentially worse as…
Where do balloons go when you set them free? It can happen to anyone. It happened to me. –Jamie Lee Curtis My parents live in an old, stone farmhouse in southern New Hampshire. The woods and fields surrounding the property…
The annual Georgetown Prep vs. Gonzaga football game has a storied history in the Washington, DC area. Every year, thousands of fans, of all ages, gather to cheer on two of the oldest Jesuit high schools in the country. The…
Bob Dilweg is the son of a legendary National Football League (NFL) Green Bay Packer offensive and defensive end and the father of a former NFL Green Bay Packer quarterback. “Clearly, my father’s athletic gene missed me. But I must…
Apparently, I didn’t always hate Carolina blue. In the Fall of 1980, my older brother Jerry enrolled at Duke University. My parents drove him down from Washington, DC and dragged his 10-year old kid brother (me!) along for the ride. We…
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest! –Mark Twain Last Monday started off great. I had an early morning meeting in a beautiful, mahogany conference room in downtown Washington, DC. And after wrapping up…