Ten years ago was a top five day in my life. It was a beautiful late afternoon on a warm day in winter. My very pregnant wife and I were sitting outside under a tulip magnolia that had bloomed that day. We’d just moved into our house the summer before, and had never experienced our yard in spring. At the time, we didn’t know whether we were having a boy or a girl. Looking back, the tulip magnolia’s bright pink…
Our oldest daughter, Agatha Rose, turns 10 tomorrow. If there’s one thing about having children that no one prepared me for, it’s how they are sobering markers of time passing. Ten years in the blink of an eye. I truly love being a father. Despite everything. And I’m proud to share this piece with you which was recently written by my little girl who very reluctantly steps out of single digits tomorrow into double digits. Forever. *** Have you ever…
Today I took my three dogs to the park, like I always do. It’s a fully enclosed park with a train track on one side, and creeks on two others. The only homes are the ones along the dead end street that dumps into the entrance of the park. I’ve been coming here for 10 years with my dogs, and 99% of the time, the park is completely empty but for us. When there are people, we respectfully pass by…
This afternoon I was running a disc utility on a Mac Mini when the verify disc function returned an error stating that I needed to run disc utility from the machine’s installation disc because the hard drive could be failing. I didn’t panic. I ran a time machine backup, inserted the disc and held down the ‘c’ key during restart. But rather than go through what looked like the process of reinstalling OS X (the machine had been upgraded to…
20 years ago, historic catastrophes like the flooding in Queensland earlier this year may have taken days to reach us. But in the age of global interrelatedness, and thanks to digital connectivity, the events in Queensland played out in real time for the rest of us to watch. And feel. But the impact of this connectivity, especially via social media, played a much larger role on the ground in Queensland than most of us realized. I really enjoyed this presentaiton…
Sometimes all we can do is keep our noses down and block out the chaos of the world. It’s perfectly fine to get wrapped up in our daily routines of life and work. It’s ok to pursue the superficial things that we believe will make us happy. We can’t possibly expect to stop what we’re doing and focus on the myriad of strife scattered across the globe. And we damn sure can’t relate. Maybe if they give us a ‘Text…
