I know I do this every time but just in case I’ve picked up a few stragglers, here’s the skinny. I turn 40 on June 6, 2012. As a little challenge to myself, I’ve spent the past year writing 40 posts that say something about who I am or how I got here. Not always…
It only took 35 entries but I finally got around to penning a few words in honor of my Mom. Without she, there would be no me – and hence no ‘Forty for Forty’. Yeah, you’ve only got her to blame for these 35 rambling posts recounting all those pivotal moments in my life that…
Editor’s Note – As most of you know, as a little challenge to myself, I’ve spent the last year in my run-up to that dreaded 40th Birthday (June 6, 2012) writing 40 posts that say something about my life – or more specifically, how I got to be the guy I am today. Most…
I have a tradition around these parts. Each year, on their birthday, I write a little post in tribute to my kids. While I didn’t begin it when they were first-born (the Blog having not been conceived at that point), I did start somewhere around Colin’s 5th and Aria’s 3rd and I’ve kept it going…
“He loved you, Eddie.” I was newly-minted fourteen years old when I heard those words while sitting in a funeral home in Everett, MA – the town where I began my grade school but quickly retreated from alongside my family for the bucolic small-town splendor of the South Shore communities. Our sudden exodus came at…
On May 22, 1994 – on a beautiful Spring morning in the bucolic Happy Valley that houses the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – I marched through a gauntlet of countless peers standing in the same boat and grabbed hold of my Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism. It marked the crowing achievement on four years of study,…
It’s been awhile since I posted one of these but I really wanted to make sure the coast was clear after that little April Fools prank I pulled. Plus, I’m still smarting over “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” book deal. With this post, we round the bend to the final 10 posts leading to 40. In…
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” ~ Ancient Proverb, Author Unknown Time to come clean. April Fools!!! I’m dying to know who among you completely fell for my latest fool-proof plan. Especially when it’s become something of an annual event…
What a week! First a job offer. Now a book deal!!! The week began with me accepting a brand new job within my company. It ended with me officially signing off on something completely different and infinitely more exciting. This is what all those cryptic Facebook updates were all about. More on that in a…
I never had a dog growing up. When you’re a boy and you develop without a canine by your side, two things happen. First you pine for one – or at least, the romantic notion of one. There’s just something inherently mythic about a boy and his dog. That image marks so much of our…