People seemed to like my personal finance posts from the past few months about things like getting rid of cable and saving money on food, so I figured I’d share some other small changes we’ve […]
Tag: Family
Genealogy, Ancestry.com, and (you probably already stopped reading)…
Nothing, and I mean nothing, puts people to sleep faster than talking about the most boring of my boring hobbies: genealogy. Of the nearly 500 people in my family tree, only two of us actually give […]
Short Story: The Pineapple Kid
Chapter One “Nick!” Tony whispered. Nick moaned. “Wake up. And keep quiet. We gotta go now if we’re gonna go,” said Tony. “Get lost.” Tony was Nick’s older brother. His real name was Frank, but […]
Advice To My Son
Dear Jack, Today you are only sixteen months old, so you won’t understand any of this yet. This is a good thing, because I haven’t got it all figured out yet. This is what I’ve […]
One Year Of Being A Father
A year ago I wrote about how my wife and I had our first baby in this post. I wrote a lot of that post in the hospital late at night when Kelly was in […]
Remembering My First Leadership Lessons
I recently remembered a childhood experience from when I was nine or so. I used to ‘work’ with my grandfather during summer vacation. His name is Billy Stamboly, Gido to me, which is Arabic for […]
On Becoming A Father
The Days Before I now realize how clueless I was in the days leading up to Jack’s birth. I had nine months to talk myself through the process and develop expectations about what our lives […]