A few months ago, I was exercising at my gym and briefly rested on a piece of equipment as a raucous gaggle of early 20-something dudes wandered past. I sipped from my water bottle and raised an eyebrow as I did a brief inventory of the group, noticing the abundance...
The year was 2006. I was young(er), single and, by that time, had spent about four years building an adventuresome new life as a transplant in Denver, Colorado. This was also just about the age when friends – both old and new – started to couple up, and I...
I will always fondly remember my favorite job as a youth. This job definitely was not my 5am paper route or my long stint as a pump jockey at the Route 31 Amoco gas station in New Jersey. No, my favorite job was one I held over four consecutive summers, when a few...
On many levels, 2022 is off to a bit of a bumpy start in my household, and I would imagine the story may be the same for many of you. At home, my wife, two young children and I were cooped up in isolation for nearly the entire month of January due to school closures...
Several days ago, I woke and quietly wandered through my house before the typical morning madness began. Coffee in hand, I meandered into my second floor home office and peeked out of the window to survey the weather and gauge how many layers of clothes we were going...