Sorry I haven't posted anything in a week, but I decided that I needed to leave the laptop alone and hang out with the family. We went to the zoo, a holiday train show and to Rokefeller Center to gawk at the tree.  The wife and I took in the Will Smith movie The Pursuit of Happyness, and we shopped [...]
In my own head I was not going to post anything new until the night before Christmas. Then I went to the Devil's holiday show. We knew that nothing good could come from a show in which my boy was expected to perform. For the last week we've been trying to mentally prepare the little [...]
A friend (let's call her "Friend") went to her off-site office party last week and had quite the tale to tell the next day. I'm not talking about the usual story of executive staff getting frisky with their subordinates after downing too many free Mojitos. We can all tell that story. I'm talking about something [...]
As a broke, disgruntled non-profit director I get depressed/stressed around this time of year. Why you ask? Tipping and gift giving. For the most part I can ignore family, however the people I can't ignore are the staff at the preschool. How much do you give the person that takes care of your most prized [...]
Recently I started reading the wildly popular book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey for the second time. My older brother recommended it to me a few years ago and since then I have had many effective moments and not so effective moments. I feel like Covey wrote the book as a [...]