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The Rockefeller Family made their fortune in oil. The Carnegie Family in steel. And the Berolzheimer Family? They made their fortune in pencils! The German ancestors of the American Berolzheimers were involved for 40 years during the 1800s in the…
Life is about perspective and how you view it over the long haul. Ultimately, you have to zoom out. — Tim McGraw At some point, all of us lose someone close to us. It is an unfortunate, and sometimes tragic,…
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. –C.S. Lewis It was quite possibly the largest underground bees nest I had ever seen. Right under a huge root in the cherry tree in my…
Many parents have gone through it. Especially if they are expecting for the first time. Childbirth classes! Young mothers, excited and nervous. Young fathers, supportive and slightly overwhelmed. It is a rite of passage that conjures up sentimental memories and…
The ‘Ol Ball Coach, Steve Spurrier, had one of the most storied careers of any college football player and coach. He won the Heisman Trophy as a gun-slinging quarterback at the University of Florida, before moving on to a brief…
The wheel has come full circle. –William Shakespeare My parents recently made the difficult move from their ancestral farmhouse in New Hampshire to an assisted living facility in the Washington, DC area. Change of this magnitude is never easy, and…
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind, that determines which way we will go in life. –Jim Rohn The day started off so perfectly. A beautiful, crisp Christmas morning. Presents under the tree. Delicious…
E.L.E. –Jackie Moon I’ll just come out and say it. We never really got along with our next door neighbors. No, not The Quinns. C’mon. We love them, of course! The ones on the other side. It’s hard to pinpoint…
In the go-go days of the internet at the turn of the millennium, I worked for DoubleClick, a pioneering internet advertising company based in New York City. Fun, sometimes irreverent, and always entertaining, DoubleClick had many time-honored traditions. But none…
A recent conversation recounting the number of odd jobs we all worked in college sparked a trip down memory lane. These cash-only, under-the-table jobs were a rite of passage and a source of great pride and amusement in retrospect. Bouncer….