On Saturday night I went to a massive concert in Boston. I saw the legendary rock groups including Joan Jett, Poison, Motley Crue and Def Leppard in what was called The 2022 Stadium Tour. Or what I would have called The Soundtrack Of My High School Weightroom Tour. Despite the…

Friday night my family and I had dinner in Las Vegas. It was the last night of our southwestern adventure, and we didn’t really plan our last meal. At least not the way Jesus did. Through a strange confluence of forces, including a rare dessert thunderstorm that created flash floods…

Great ideas come from time spent thinking. One of the best ways to think is to write. Writing is like mining for ideas. But with less black lung disease. And more Carpal tunnel syndrome. Every line you write digs deeper into a vein of thought. The more you write, the…

Last night I was walking after enjoying dinner with my family. As I walked along a busy promenade in Santa Monica that was packed with pedestrians, I noticed a mural that said The Best Is Yet To Come. The message grabbed my attention as if it had been painted there…

Last night I was mowing my lawn with my John Deere lawn tractor. When I was halfway through mowing my 1.6-acre lawn the steering failed. Which is not a great thing to happen when mowing a lawn. …

My 16-year-old daughter Ava has a new job this summer. She is a cashier at our local Piggly Wiggly grocery store. The store name sounds both deliciously made-up and midwestern. …

You are a lean, mean, scheduling machine. When you have both a destination and an arrival time, you can easily figure out when you need to leave to get to the destination on time. When you have work to do and a deadline to meet, you know how to complete…

Yesterday a window washer came into my office to wash my windows. I found the experience fascinating. Not because I had never seen someone wash office windows before. But because I have. My summer job before my freshman and sophomore years in high school was working at the office complex…

Humans continuously innovate. We are always looking for better, faster smarter ways to do everything. And we keep finding it. (Which makes it odd that Bono still hasn’t found what he’s looking for.) As a result of progress and innovation, our technology and infrastructure systems keep evolving. And to make…