2019 was a truly epic year. One year ago today, Grace & I were engaged. Since that seminal moment, this past year has seen its share of ups and downs, the highest of the highs most certainly high and the lowest of the low tragically low. Through it all, my constant has been Grace and our dog Taylor. This is what the last year, and the years leading up to it looked like… Continue reading New Years 2020
I have kept a “treasure chest” that entire time, collecting keepsakes of notes, cards, postcards, letters, and photographs from family members and friends, as well as ticket stubs, sundry miscellaneous items to remind me of all the great things that have happened in my life and the moments when someone was thinking of me as something great was happening in theirs. Continue reading My Treasure Chest
2016 was a year where I focused upon myself, my family & my friends, and my dog. Along the way, my family, friends and I experienced loss. Along the way, I joined an amazing company (Upwork), went on an amazing adventure (the Rickshaw Run in India), and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. It was an epic year. Continue reading 2016: a Retrospective and a Different Perspective
Mass on Christmas Eve has always been special for me, attending church with either parts of my, or my entire, … Continue reading Christmas Eve
There are those that regret their troubled past. Conversely, there are those that instead yearn for their storied yesterdays. All … Continue reading Past, Present, Future
Not to be outdone by the harvest moons of the previous two nights, Sunday morning 18 September 2016 brought with … Continue reading Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun
“Have you ever made love under the sun?” I’d never met anyone like her. She was beautiful, but intense. Her … Continue reading The SUN and The MOON
I’ve always loved this poem, originally translated from Bengali, written by Rabindrahath Tagore. In many ways, it captures the essence … Continue reading “Let My Country Awake”
I write this not for the dead, but for the living. It seems lately that more and more people I … Continue reading In Death, Love Never Ends
Tuesday’s are meant to be special. We all have things going on. Some of those things are quite a bit … Continue reading Muir Woods
Secret of My SucCecil 