For Thanksgiving 2022, I was thankful my children weren’t with me on the day. Seems odd saying that, right? I absolutely wanted my children with me today. But Patrick was 3 weeks shy of 28, Emma pushing 27 on her next birthday. They’re in different cities far away, building their career, starting lives with their …
My kids weren’t home at thanksgiving…and I was thankful for that. Read More »
In January 2008, I was a “dignitary” for GMAC, handing out post-game awards at The GMAC Bowl in Mobile, AL. My daughter Emma was 11 at the time and thought it was so cool that Dad was doing this. Now, Emma is 26 with a life and career in Houston with her boyfriend, Ben. Both …
You just can’t script life…or imagine where it takes you. Read More »
All great things come to an end…expect it. We’ve lived in a charmed, 150-year-old neighborhood for the past 25 years. Old homes (ours is 110), legacy families, small streets, old shops, mature trees. A few weeks back, we had to take down a tree that must’ve been 100 years old. It was time. It was …
“Some people are so worried about tomorrow’s rain that they miss today’s sunshine.” On a Sunday night, your mind goes to many places. Tonight, my mind went to this quote I heard a few weeks back. This was me for many years. I was thumbing through pics on my iPhone tonite and saw this one. …
Your foundation is set early in life…not always, but often. I know it may not look like it now, but this was the mecca of baseball for me from 1975-1981. Where I cut my teeth from ages 8 to 14. Where I played like Tanner Boyle from the Bad News Bears mixed with Hall of …
My wife ran into my son’s childhood friend the other day. He’s now 28. He said to her “I remember cutting through the backyards in the neighborhood to get to your house after Mr. Wagner cut the lawn and painted baselines in the yard so that we’d could play wiffle ball all day long.” Apart …
Don’t be told otherwise: you can have a career and a family. Read More »
Emulate the right behaviors. Pattern the right behaviors. As a kid, I was all about baseball…live it, breathed it. Always pitching against the front steps, always throwing myself pop-ups, spending hours playing Wiffle Ball on the streets of NE Philly, always looking for neighborhood kids to hit the local fields for pickup games. From my …
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My son Patrick is 28 in a few weeks and girlfriend, career and life have taken him to Centre County, PA…near Penn State….perfect, considering I’m there constantly for University-related activities and my football tailgates. During one of my recent tailgates, the aunt and uncle of Patrick’s girlfriend were in town for the game and stopped …
Age 6 in the backyard. Age 17 as a HS pitcher. Age 42 in the Men’s Senior Baseball League. Baseball was life for me. Every year since age 6 from little league to travel ball to my high school team. Multiple teams in multiple leagues during my teen years. But then life comes calling. College …
When building a career, don’t forget to be a kid. Read More »
Your team is built with people with perspectives and backgrounds? That’s the jawn! A few weeks ago while working in Florida, someone mocked my Philly roots by using the word “jawn”, a distinctly Philly word. There was a young man nearby who said “I can’t believe you know jawn. I thought I was the only …