In honor of summer and the long 4th of July holiday weekend, I figured I would reflect a little bit on one of my favorite summer activities: windsurfing. I learned to windsurf from my father during our annual family trips
House Hunting
Over the past couple months Miranda and I have been house hunting in Westchester. The process has been interesting to say the least. We’ve been out to look at homes four different times and have placed bids on a few
Persistence
A couple experiences coalesced for me this week around the topic of career success. First, I happened upon this blog post on LinkedIn about Louis CK. The post talks about how Louis CK turned down a well paying steady job
Daring Greatly
Taking advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday, I spent a little time away from work and read Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown. For those of you
Why I Don’t Believe in “Paying Your Dues”
When I was in college I dreamed about working for a large, well known advertising agency. The kind that I saw in the movies, had an office on Madison Avenue, made television ads, and had the mystique of combining the
Memory and Feynman
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been reading Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman, a physicist famous for his work on the Manhattan Project. The book is really just a series of Feynman’s memoirs that span the course
On Travel and Getting Older
In eighth grade I had a Spanish teacher named Josh Wolf – or Señor Lobo as the students called him. I can’t recall much from his classes, but I do vividly remember one lesson. Señor Lobo was an avid traveler
Eloquent Beginnings
Just a short thought this week on writing. The hardest thing I do every Sunday is write the first 100 words of my weekly blog post. It sometimes takes me as long as an hour just to assemble the opening
A Short Vacation; Retirement
Just a short thought for today. This past weekend I took a short vacation down to South Carolina with family and friends. We stayed in a large rental property in a beachside retirement community. The weather was beautiful and the
Waiting for Godot
To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I walked into the Cort Theatre earlier this month. I knew that Waiting For Godot was a famous play, but I had never read it or studied it in