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 …
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Summer ’18 vs. Summer ’22. Then and now, Kristin likes bright paisley. Then and now, I Iike sharp pink. Some things never change, but most things do (like my hairline and hair color). I laugh when someone says they’re a change-agent. In reality, we hate change; we stick to rituals. Wake-up the same time. Same …
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I found this hat while de-cluttering the home. It was last worn in 2009, my final year as head coach for a team I had coached for years. In 2009, the boys were 15 with interests shifting towards jobs, cars and girls. It was time to retire as a coach and I was OK with …
Just hot double-nickels recently. 55. From 1967 to 2022 doesn’t seem like such a long stretch of time, until you think about it being the same as 1945 to 2000…then it hits you hard. So, 55 is a long time on the earth. 2,870 weeks. 20,090 days…even more so when I consider this photo from …
“Dad, there’s always great weather after a storm.” I was sitting on my balcony in Florida Sunday afternoon, thinking too much about life and career and how the heck I got to where I am despite some really turbulent times in life and career. And then these storm clouds rolled in. Some serious and ominous …
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Just because you get older doesn’t mean you have to let go of childhood completely. You have a lifetime of work…30 years and more for most of us. Work hard to build a life and career but look for ways to escape to the simple joys of youth. There was no way I was passing …
This is life, folks. On LinkedIn, we’re all putting our best life, career and personal brand out for others to perceive, believe. But this is life. Not all glamor and glitz. Sometimes cluttered and uncertain. A dining room table filled with shipping boxes, a dry cleaning ticket, money set aside for neighbors collecting to buy American …
Most people will see a simple, green, uncluttered grass yard. But what I see is a swing set, sandbox, wiffle ball field, picnic spot, and so much more…because that’s what this yard was from 1997 and for many years after that. We bought our home because it had a yard where our kids could be …
Who the heck is this guy? Jeez, that was my first corporate headshot. Summer of ’99, age 32. Back My hair was heavier, my body thinner. I have 34 years of a career in the rearview mirror. No more opportunities for 40-Under-40 for me. I may not have gotten local or national business press by achieving professional things …