Yes, some musicians and actors and athletes I like died, and we had a really contentious and nasty Presidential election, but entertainers and politicians aren’t responsible for my day-to-day (or year-to-year) happiness or contentment; I am. This was the most successful year I’ve ever had professionally and financially, but that’s […]
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roadtripping from Atlanta to Nashville with a Pennsylvanian
Not long ago, my friend Jeff Bogle told me Kia was sponsoring a road trip from Atlanta to Nashville a few days before Thanksgiving and asked if I’d like to participate. He promised good food, good music, and good company. The last time I’d spent any time with Bogle was […]
the Greyfield Inn at Cumberland Island
For our 11th anniversary, we flew to Jacksonville on Veterans Day, took a shuttle to a ferry at Fernandina Beach, and then disembarked at Cumberland Island for a quarter mile walk along a sandy road to the Greyfield Inn, our home for the weekend. We grabbed a pair of bikes […]
October 2016
I love October. We get dropping temperatures (most years), a trip to Saint Simons Island for my annual conference, and Halloween. Some years, we take an additional work-related trip, but this year, the military interfered with that plan. This year, we took our newish electric car to SSI. It took […]
an electric road trip to north Alabama
We took our first electric roadtrip as a family last weekend, as the children got Columbus Day (and the preceding Friday + the following Tuesday) off. We headed to Guntersville, Alabama on Saturday, where my parents live by the state park. But first, we stopped at a Nissan dealer in […]
York, England
As the girls sang “Welcome to Old York” to the tune of the similarly-titled Taylor Swift song about NYC, we started our 1 day in what would become one of my favorite cities visited in the world. We came by train from Edinburgh after returning the car. Then, about a […]
a month of Marvel (with a dash of DC)
This month’s Netflix* viewings were heroic and nostalgic. I introduced my children to one of my favorite TV shows when I was their age: “The Incredible Hulk” — the one with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. They liked it. Sure, the special effects are a bit dated (read: hokey) now, […]
1,612 miles along I-20 in a new Tesla
A couple of weekends ago, I gathered with several friends from high school for a weekend of kayaking on the Hiwassee River like we did last year before we all turned 40. While riding back with my friend Jim Bob (who’s my most car-knowledgeable friend…I tell people he’s “pooped while […]
Not your guru
The best show I’ve seen on Netflix this month was its original documentary (of sorts) about Tony Robbins called “I Am Not Your Guru.” I was enticed to watch it after listening to an interview with him on Tim Ferriss’s podcast (for the 3rd time…all were great) in which he […]
Driving to St Andrews
On Tuesday the 5th of July, I walked a mile in the rain to Hertz and rented what was supposed to be an automatic Audi but ended up being a manual shift Kia. So, my first experience driving on the left side of the road would be with a stick […]