We have a hole… and footings have been poured. Finally, the new home seems real. Foundation walls will soon follow. I was curious as to when the forms for the foundation would be in place. I googled “How long until….” and Google filled in the suggestion “How long until the Covid vaccine is effective.” OK,…
Category: Work, Writing. Reading, Watching
Stories from my prior life in the corporate world and now as a writer
Dec 21st: Day Zero
A hot (for coastal Michigan) day in mid-August, we put our initial deposit down for our new home. Four full months ago. And it is still Day Zero for us. Ground breaking is expected tomorrow. Then another eight months to our projected closing date. From start to finish, twelve full months to build a new…
Dec 17th: Sports Edition
Do you bet on sports? I never have, but I’ve always wondered…. how much is it skill based versus just gambling? My son provides free sports betting advice as a hobby. He’s done it for a few years now. As a former basketball, baseball and football player… and also as a former basketball coach…. I…
December 7th: “I Understand”
Oh hell no you don’t / show me one honest politician “I understand.” Words that piss me off when a politician speaks. Why can’t we have one honest politician say… “No, I don’t understand. I have never worked in a restaurant. I have never owned a business. And I don’t know what it is to…
November 25th: Arrested at Grandma’s
You may be next… Last Sunday Night Our Sunday night: Patrick Mahomes hit Travis Kelce with the game winning TD pass. Our family erupted in cheers. Only a moment later, a half dozen hard pounds on our storm door rang out. Opening the front door, but keeping the storm door locked, I was greeted by…
October 10th: “A full time job”
Another couple from our complex is building in Hathaway Lakes… just a few houses down from my daughter. They took our approach to design. Printed out 114 pages of options. Poured over each one choice. Researched options of moving walls, creating unique spaces, gathering ideas from visiting other models and online galleries. The wife exclaimed,…
Sept 16th: Plunging into the details
What are you? Are you a detail oriented person, or a big picture person? I once participated in a week long Center For Creative Leadership program which found me taking every psychological test ever invented (so it seemed). After a full week of this, we felt like guinea pigs for researchers, but the individual four…
Sept 6th: How We Lose
Are you tired of BLM? (I posted this on Medium last week and sadly got few views, so i am adding it to my blog too) Photo by Ben White on Unsplash This time was going to be different. Maybe it still will. But I worry we are already beginning to lose. By “we” I…
August 28th: Goodbye Minimalism… am I a traitor to the cause?
Maybe you know my/our story from this blog: I quit my job, we sold our large and overflowing house, gave away our possessions and moved to a two bedroom apartment. Living on the beach in Grand Haven, Michigan. I had started a 200 day countdown blog when few people believed I was serious. I continued…
July 31st: Playing Offense Fighting Covid… and can this little bottle help?
(My article written in Medium today) You stayed home. Maybe you still do. You wash your hands over and over. You socially distance. You wear a mask when in enclosed public places or outside when you can’t socially distance. Maybe you even added a face shield or goggles. Maybe you have underlying medical conditions and…