One Guy's Truth
Growing up, I loved video games. Probably not in a 2018 sense where kids spend 23 hours out of the day playing Red Dead Redemption 2, Metal Gear Survive or God of War (this list courtesy of the google). If my 9-year-old self had his way, I would have spent every waking hour burning my […]
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I’m the luckiest person you’ve ever met (online). Seriously. No one has more luck than me. What gives me this confidence? Well, for starters, I’ve got a wife who’s willing to fight for my honor, supportive parents, beautiful and healthy kids, wonderful friends, solid health, a nice home and enough money to pay for things […]
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In September of 2016, I attended a silent retreat in upstate New York for 7 full days. My phone was turned off and left in the car. I had no interaction with anyone other than hearing the facilitator talk for about 2 hours a day and hearing a couple of people ask questions for 1 […]
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After reading this title, many of you probably said, “thank the gods!” or “great, now I don’t have to see your posts distracting me from good cat videos” or “did they fire you from Facebook too?” Since moving this blog over from a travelogue to whatever the hell it is now, I have linked my […]
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Worried some of my previous blog post titles have been a little “click bait’y”, a friend informed me it’s only click bait if the headline isn’t reflective of the actual content. Looking again at this headline, it might end up giving the wrong impression. In my experience, your employer actually does give a f*ck about […]
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After graduating college, I have worked for 5 companies. 2 of these companies have fired me. Thus, 40% of my previous employers like to end my employment with them by kicking my ass to the curb. Ouch. I feel for anyone who loses their job. It’s not fun feeling unwanted. For those of you who […]
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In college, I had my first “real” girlfriend. No, I didn’t have imaginary girlfriends in high school (well, maybe a couple Freshman year), my first longer term and significant relationship just happened to be in college. This relationship was tough for me. While I knew what it was like to have a girlfriend based on […]
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On Friday night, I came back home after having a couple of beers with friends. Just before heading to sleep, I checked my phone and noticed an unread text. I had received the following message from an extremely good friend of mine. This is what it read – “Dude, you gotta checkout my new mountain […]
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Starting over is tough. In February 2009, I quit my job as a Project Manager for the London 2012 Olympics and flew home to the United States to start up my previous business (the one I was fired from last year). Leaving a great job and one of the most vibrant cities on the planet […]
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Going through some old stuff the other day, I came across a stack of savings bonds. Every Christmas and Birthday, my Grandparents (children of the great depression), would give their grandchildren a savings bond. These bonds varied in amount, but usually had a maturity value in the neighborhood of $100. Being an ungrateful little punk […]
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I love trying new things, especially those around nutrition, fitness, or adventure experiences. There’s nothing better than getting a new idea in my head and fantasizing about how that idea is going to exponentially change my life for the better. Usually the changes never live up to the expectation I set, but they’re fun to […]
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One of my favorite tasks as an Executive and Manager used to be the Thought of the Day. This was a short quote or story that I would blast out to my team in the morning. The intent was to either educate, motivate, or communicate depending on the needs and mood of the business at […]
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“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.” – Roy Disney My previous business was a joint venture partnership. The business was an ongoing concern in the United Kingdom and I approached the founders to bring operations to the United States. One thing that initially attracted me to the company […]
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I’ve been working on this “first post after the trip” for quite some time now. I can’t say the work has been productive or the writing exceptionally good. In fact, most of the time when I sit to write, I look out the window or just stare at my screen. After a couple of half-hearted […]
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After attending my Dad’s retirement party in Washington DC, we returned to Tin E in Oklahoma City. It was anticlimactic to be back in the trailer. Trips to National Parks, the Pacific Northwest, Wyoming, Montana, Canada, California, Arizona and New Mexico were all in the rear view mirror. While there are great spots back East, […]
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One of the reasons we flew through the southwest was to make it to Oklahoma City by October 6th. Why would we want to visit the thriving metropolis of OKC so badly, you ask? Well, we had a flight back to the DC area to attend my Dad’s retirement party. The expeditious driving and flight […]
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On October 18, 2016, I walked into a board room as the CEO of a multi-million dollar business with responsibility of over 200 employees. The business was my first-born, grown from an idea hatched in 2008. I walked out of that board room a business owner and CEO no longer. It was on this date […]
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I was asked a good question the other day, “what on this trip has surprised you?” Other than finding it possible to live with and around my kids for 24 hours a day, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how kind everyone we have come across has been. Back in April, as we got ready to […]
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Is there such a thing as National Park overload? If so, we might be hitting it. I’m typing this post from King’s Canyon National Park, an absolutely stunning park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. This evening we took a hike through a Sequoia tree grove where literally people from all over the […]
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Driving our truck, “Gringo”, today to get an oil change, it dawned on me that we have logged some serious mileage over the past 2.5 months. Looking at the oil change sticker in the upper left hand corner of our windshield, it was surprising to calculate that we were getting an oil change some 3 […]
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