It was late August. My wife Linda and I and our three kids were on vacation in Colorado. We were in Crested Butte for the day, a small, former mining town in the Rocky Mountains that is as rugged and beautiful as I am not. These days, and despite its frontier beginnings, the town is overflowing with fun restaurants, cool stores and funky bars. Linda and two of our kids were off walking around. I was sitting on a bench with […] Click to read more…

You’ll no doubt be excited to learn that my wife Linda and I successfully moved to a new house last weekend. Our old house was terrific (we’d been there 11 years) but with our youngest son, Jonathan, off to college this fall, we decided it was a good time to downsize. And downsize we did. We moved from a four bedroom, two-story house, to a two bedroom home on just one floor (sorry, too much math?). And let me tell […] Click to read more…

My wife walked in on me last week. I’m guessing I’m not the first man this has ever happened to, but it’s embarrassing all the same. I was standing in the upstairs bathroom with the door mostly – but not completely – closed. I thought I was alone in the house. Suddenly, and much to my surprise, Linda burst in, took one look and said, “What are you doing?!” Listen To This Post Don’t worry, it’s not what you were […] Click to read more…

Do you know what I’m going to do at the end of this month, on March 31st? If you said, “Put you son Jonathan’s cereal bowl in the freezer overnight so it’s a big block of ice when he tries to eat breakfast on April Fool’s Day,” I’m going to give you partial credit. But that’s not what I’m talking about. Rather, on March 31st – the end of the quarter – I’m going to change the blade on my […] Click to read more…