Category: Personal Growth

  • Trickle Charging

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    “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”– Sir Winston Churchill Hi Everyone,  The trickle charge – I have a love of motorcycles; I’ve had many different bikes over the years. I am particularly enamored with Italian bikes. When I was a teenager I would buy old motorcycles,…

  • Traditions

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    “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler Hi Everyone,  24 or 25 years ago, (this is still a matter of debate), I started hosting a holiday lunch for my buddies. We have maintained the core group the entire time; there have been some interlopers over the years and…

  • Balanced Diet

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    “You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” – Kody Keplinger Hi Everyone,  I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving.    I’ve been talking to my 13-year-old daughter about her media consumption and the importance of a…

  • Gratitude

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    “Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.” – Raheel Farooq Hi Everyone, I am sure many of you are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving. I’ve been reflecting upon the impact of gratitude in our day to day lives – both personally and professionally Our HR team had a long-standing practice of sharing…

  • The American Way

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    Hi Everyone, Tomorrow will be 20 years since the 9/11 attacks – the event that changed the course of history. As an American, I was profoundly shocked, saddened, and angry. Terrorism was something that happened around the world but not in the USA. We embarked on a military campaign unparalleled in modern history. World War 2…

  • BBQ part 2

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    Hi Everyone, I’m about 2/3 of the way done with my favorite BBQ drive, along with my 13 year old son, Mitch. There are two restaurants left for today and two more tomorrow. The funny thing about BBQ is it’s mostly the same, then you occasionally find a good place. Here are a couple stand outs for both…

  • Cross-country BBQ

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    Hi Everyone, Seems so long ago, late in February of 2020 I was writing to you about how excited I was to go on a cross-country BBQ trip. Wow … that didn’t really work out! I wound up getting stuck in San Diego because California shut down and I wasn’t sure if I was even…

  • Remembering the Fallen

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    Hi Everyone, Happy Memorial Day weekend! I want to take a moment to remember our fallen soldiers and give sincere gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much for this country and our freedoms. We owe all of them a tremendous debt. I hope that this weekend is a reminder to all of us that…

  • Treasure Our Mistakes

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    Hi Everyone, I was watching my latest Netflix show last night and there was a scene between a Mother and her Daughter about how everyone makes mistakes. The mother dramatically said, “I’ve made soooo many mistakes in my life.” That spawned another internal dialogue for me about the mistakes that I’ve made in my life…

  • We Can Do Better

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    Hi Everyone, As humans in the very early stages of our cognitive development (as early as two years old), we begin to recognize right from wrong. As we mature through our adolescence, we develop an understanding of morality, a moral compass. What is moral and immoral and how we are expected to respond or act…