Fall in New England means a few things. Leaves changing color. Pumpkins. Football. The annual ritual of weekend soccer games consuming a significant portion of your day. The equally annual ritual of bitching about how many games you have to cart your ass around to to all the other parents. Bringing a flask to the … Continue reading Things I Learned at a Suburban Kid’s Soccer Game
How United Airlines – and Not God – Taught Me to be Patient
There are few stories that begin with 'so I was at Chicago O'Hare Airport...' that don't end with '....I was so angry I wanted to punch a baby.' But this one is a story of transcendence thanks to the wonderful work of United Airlines. One of my favorite quotes from the movie Evan Almighty, is … Continue reading How United Airlines – and Not God – Taught Me to be Patient
10 Ways to Teach Your Kids to Be Happy
It’s amazing to me, as my children (9 and 6) progress through their days of school, that the most important lesson we could teach them appears in none of the classwork, homework or field trips. We teach math and science, reading and writing. We couch any subject that might not be immediately usable in the … Continue reading 10 Ways to Teach Your Kids to Be Happy
Life is for the Living
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” ― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems I confess. While I’d heard the ‘life is for the living’ quote many times, and said it myself more than once, before this blog post I’d never bothered to … Continue reading Life is for the Living
“We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?” she whispered. — Dagny Taggart
"No, we never had to." John Galt in response. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Atlas Shrugged was a tough book to get through. Anybody who says differently is lying or just glossed over the 50+ page monologue from Galt. Easy on the tree-killing Ayn. But that line alone is a life lens that I have … Continue reading “We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?” she whispered. — Dagny Taggart
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