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Yesterday, I shared about the moment in life when you share an experience with an enemy or someone you never understood and realize that this person is more like you than you thought. (I call it a "Breakfast Club Experience.")…
John Hughes is one of my mom's favorite movie-makers. And for good reason. The stuff he made in the 80s was incredible — so profound, so honest. (I don't want to go into some of the stuff he did in…
When I was in first grade, I had a bully named Teddy. Yes, that’s right, Teddy. It doesn’t exactly conjure fear and intimidation, does it? (More like cute and cuddly…) And quite frankly, he looked like a “Teddy.” But…
I turned 27 yesterday. It was kind of uneventful — I mean, besides the surprise birthday party on Saturday, going out to eat (twice) to celebrate, the 200+ "Happy Birthday" wishes on Facebook, and an Edible Arrangements bouquet from…
I work at home. Whenever I tell people that, they tell me how lucky I am. Funny, I don’t feel lucky. I’ve been managing my own schedule for three years now. With the exception of some regular meetings and…
If I’m learning anything from the recent tragedy in Haiti, it’s this: Life is fragile. It seems that we all learn this hard fact at some point in adulthood. Life can be brutal. The universe sometimes seems ruthless and…
I had to clean the house and take out the garbage earlier today. I had wasted four hours playing around online, and when my wife got home after grocery shopping to see the house in the same state she left…
Yesterday, I wrote a blog, asking the question, “Is support raising keeping you from your calling?“ Several of you gave some pretty brave responses, both on Twitter and this blog, either admitting that the idea of self-financing your dreams…
As I’ve alluded to before in previous posts, I’m building a marketing team for Adventures In Missions (AIM), the nonprofit missions organization that I work for. I’ve been doing this for about a year (we currently have a robust, but…
A friend referred to me the book A Whole New Mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future, and the following quote stuck out to me. Author Daniel Pink writes: “We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and…
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