Archive for 2009

On December 26th, 2004 I was sitting on my couch staring speechless at the nightly news showing the aftermath of the Asian tsunami. As I’ve openly revealed before, the single shoe I saw wash up on shore that night drastically changed my life forever. Since that time five years ago, (Continue reading…)

With the Christmas season and all of the gifts people give and receive, I wondered how long before you forget about the great gifts you got and move on to bigger and better stuff. It’s kind of like the game of Monopoly. The goal in the game is to acquire, (Continue reading…)

I thought it appropriate on Christmas Eve to send all of my friends and partners well wishes. I hope your holiday is filled with love and joy, and that you will look back on this past year and draw strength from the successes, appreciate the failures, and embrace all of (Continue reading…)

I do a lot of traveling to garner support for Soles4Souls and candidly I love doing it, but the travel part it sometimes not so fun. There are long lines, fewer spots at the terminal drop off, full planes, and then you have to deal with all of the rules. (Continue reading…)

Tiffany and I invited to a birthday party last weekend for a friend who was turning 40. When we got there it was the typical 40th birthday scenerio where the guy thought he was getting old so his garage and house were full of ‘man’ toys. He even had a (Continue reading…)

We all have thoughts in our heads about the “one thing” we want for the holidays and I want to stir up thoughts not about gifts but the “one thing” that really bothers you in the world. The “one thing” that often keeps you up at night. Could that one (Continue reading…)

Get your mind out of the gutter! I spoke to my good friend Fran last night about the special blog category I created just for him. His first question was why didn’t he have more posts and was actually upset about it (gimme a break…like Wayne’s World should really be (Continue reading…)

Not too often do you meet people and say ‘ahh’. I want you to meet my friend Kevin McVey and his family. They are the people in my life that make me sit back and just have a nice ‘ahh’ moment. His kids are amazing and work great together as (Continue reading…)

“Oh, but you’re too young to have a 20 year old daughter!” I hear this all the time (NOT!). But honestly, when I tell people I have a 20 year old daughter they either pat me on the back or laugh a little and say good luck. Seriously though, being (Continue reading…)