Many of you commented on my story last week about trying to play catch with my daughters and how it ended in tears. Softballs are NOT soft. If a ball bounces off their glove and hits them in the face, they tend to hate you for a period of time. Because of course it...
I’m surprised and grateful. When attending an annual REALTOR® event, I almost choked on my food when they called out my name for the Good Neighbor Humanitarian Award. It was incredible and humbling to receive the award in front of 1,000 industry colleagues. But what...
I’m 10,000 feet in the air in a cramped plane, heading to Portland for work. I need to prep for an upcoming meeting, but my daughter Ivy dominates my thoughts. She’s eight. For the first 3 years of life, her nickname was the Night Fury. She earned that name for the...
Elon Musk, has a mission to go to Mars. And yesterday, he sent the most powerful rocket ever into space. Elon has a stated goal of sending the first cargo mission to Mars by 2022. Yesterday’s launch proves they are one step closer to that goal. We all have our...
Yesterday, I wrote about my daughter Emilia. Thank you all who wrote back with kind words of encouragement for her. I even got an email from parent of another student at Emilia’s school. She wanted to let me know how much her family enjoys getting Emilia’s...
Quote of the Day: “It’s not how well you play the game, its deciding what game you want to play.” - Kwame Appiah I read this quote this morning and my first thought went to my daughter Emilia. She is 10 and struggles socially, finding it very difficult to make...
The Desk of the Richest Man in the World The picture above is of Jeff Bezos, now considered the richest man in the world. This is where he started. It’s a good reminder to see that you can start with humble beginnings and end up anywhere. When interviewed last year,...
How My Adventures in the South Pacific Taught Me the Importance of Building a Tribe Growing up I was fascinated with the Indiana Jones movies. Watched the movies countless times. I loved how “Indy” went on these wild and fascinating adventures all over the...
I remember wandering the aisles of a Barnes & Noble in San Diego. My wife and I were in town so she could attend a writers’ conference. Amanda, my wife, was anxious because she had written her first book and would be pitching it to prospective agents and...