A friend sent me this awesome LinkedIn Yeti mug. I’ve arrived! I’m someone now! Kidding aside, the gesture meant so much more than a simple gift. Sometime around 2005, a friend invited me to join the platform, so I did. It was an odd time at work. Admin changes were happening, marketing was de-emphasized. I …
It was 1979 in Northeast Philly and I was a 12 year-old kid playing competitive travel-league baseball across the city. I was a short-and-skinny but talented-and-feisty baseball player. I was on the team pictured here. One of the coaches on this team said “don’t swing until after the first called strike”. I was told to keep …
Patrick was “supposed” to graduate college in May 2017. Instead, he graduated in December 2020. It’s taken him over 7 years to finish his college degree but he did it. He did it while fighting adversity, self-doubt, confusion. He started at Penn State in 2013 as a chemical engineering hopeful, hit a hard wall, took time off, worked …
Some will say it was 3 years’ late. I say it was right on time. Read More »