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Three Life Lessons I Learned from My Trip to Cuba.

The country. Not the town in Missouri. In 2015, I was approaching a milestone birthday in a year that was, well, being kind

BU Be you. Play the long game. I went to college in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-90s. Most people know that Boston is

Lessons in differences, expectations, and how to order at Waffle House. Back in 1998, I started an acoustic guitar duo in St. Louis

I finally understood why he retired in 1993 and I needed to tell him. In 2015, my father passed away, I turned 40,

Hint: Willy Wonka knew it all along. “Oh, you can’t get out backwards. You gotta go forwards to go back. Better press on.”

There’s the rub. Hobbies are super fun. We all know that. They’re cathartic. They’re relaxing. They realign and tune you back into yourself.

An experiment in oversimplification (just to see what happens). When I left my office job almost two years ago, it was an adjustment

Note: I may or may not have pulled a hammy just writing this. It’s been a few years, but I used to really

Proceed with caution. Many years ago, my dad’s physician told him that a glass of red wine every day was actually good for

We were short, but at least we were slow. I recently ran into one of my oldest friends at a 4th of July party