Three weeks ago, hardly any of us were aware of COVID-19. Toilet paper was easy to find. We didn’t sing songs while washing our hands. And then someone told you that you’d be working from home for the foreseeable future.…
That familiar feeling was back: my chest tightened a little bit; my focus fragmented into a million directions; my anxiety began to climb. And the voice in my head sternly reprimanded me – “You’re doing it AGAIN! You’ve wasted your…
One of the things that I am planning to nerd out about more on my professional website (when I finally get that sucker done) is productivity and such, but I had some personal revelations recently that felt more at home…
Late October in New England is really the sweet spot for why people live here. Fall colors are on display, the air is crisp, but not frigid. Our menu shifts from light summer fare to heartier comfort food like soups,…
I’ve had a paralyzed vocal chord for 69 days. I had surgery to remove a potato sized mass in my chest that was compressing my windpipe and threatening to close off my airway eventually. It was an involved surgery —…
I want to close out this week with the greatest lessons Jeff taught me. Love Courageously Like a lot of guys, I often trip and stumble over that phrase with anyone outside of my wife, my kids, and my Mom.…
One of the more challenging phrases spoken in our family over the past week and a half has been this: “We’ll just have to make our own fun.” In my family, we relied on Jeff to keep things fun. Not…
There is an arc to what what I’ve learned from Jeff, a building up of one lesson upon another and we are now entering territory where Jeff was certainly the Master, and I have only just begun as a student.…
If you knew my uncle, you know that he was a Jeff of All Trades and the Master of Most of ‘Em. Professionally he was a talented sound engineer, graphic designer, and web site guru. He brewed phenomenal beer under…
Last week, my uncle died. The details of how and when aren’t as important to me as the simple fact that it was way too early. Jeff had a major impact on my life, and having had time to grieve…