You know what’s amazing? Rate of change. We all feel like we live in a pretty technologically advanced world, right? We have our mobile connectivity. Our apps. Real time video. It’s pretty cool. We’ve come a long way since fax machines in the 1990s. But the thing is, in a few short years our children will be developing and using new stuff which will likely blow what we have now away. It’s easy to say “children are the future” because…
Before we had children, I didn’t care much about them. It’s not that I abhorred children (I understood the concept of keeping our species going, after all), it’s just that because me and my wife didn’t have any, they weren’t important. Other people had kids. We had a dog. But then one thing lead to another and yadda yadda yadda now we’re the parents of two daughters who are 12 and 14. And surprisingly, being a father is great. I…
My wife wasn’t feeling well this morning, and so she took the day off. Then she started feeling better around lunch, and decided to run a few errands. I joined her. We went to the usual places in Midtown, and ended up at Chipotle to pick up lunch. All the tables were empty, but the line to order was all the way to the door. It was weird. “I guess we’re between rushes,” I said. Ten minutes later we ordered our food, and…
I once heard a Donald Trump quote that I believed to be true: “If I were to run for President, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country.” It turns out that this quote isn’t actually true, but man, it sure sounds like something he’d say. Especially when you consider how Donald Trump plays to his constituency, “I have total net worth of $8.73 billion. I’m not saying that to brag. I’m saying that to show…
today, i want to be in guana state park. traversing the winding trails through the ancient forest where rattlesnakes sleep under palmetto fronds, and low spots are tar baths for boar. above me, banana spiders menacingly hang between the pines and oaks. floating there, stationary against the sky. waiting. waiting. past the river, around a pond, across A1A, and through the oat-covered dunes to where the golden shore opens up and slides into the sapphire sea. but instead, I’ll help turn the…
An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. “One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. “This same fight is…
