Lessons From Groundhog Day
Think about the big things you want in life: happiness, success, great relationships, a sense of accomplishment and generosity, happy kids, and health. Listed like that they may seem like...
2017 is Gonna…
2017 is gonna kick ass! “or kick butt” as my friend Eric corrected me when I offered this at the end of a New Year’s toast in front of his...
Three of My Favorite Things
In the summer of 1982 my friend Joey from my Freshman dorm asked me to go to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) with him. He told me just...
Pizza Sellouts
My daughter Keely is a poor college kid in Madison, Wisconsin. Actually, she’s also a beautiful, recently married young woman, but “poor college kid” sounds better for the purposes of...
Sometimes it’s a Prize Fight
I’m average. I have tried to teach my kids that you don’t have to be the fastest, or the smartest, or the tallest, or the strongest, or have the best...
