Celebrating the Little Things

We need to take time to celebrate; we need to celebrate the little things and the big things. It’s not very often that I have celebrated things at work with more than a toast. As a lawyer, I’ve worked on hundred of deals and seen many contracts signed, licenses negotiated, and so on; but these…

Gettysburg Address – Have We Learned Anything?

Have we learned anything in the last 150 years? Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was given one year after the famed battle, in the middle of the Civil War, to dedicate the battlefield as a cemetery. The speech lasted a mere 2 minutes. It was preceded by a speech from Edward Everett that lasted an agonizing 2…

Happy Parent Moments

As a parent, I always dread getting a call from the school phone number. Like the time I was in Boston and I got a call saying Bryce’s front teeth had been knocked out. What am I supposed to do, from Boston? Turns out it wasn’t Bryce, or his permanent front teeth. It was McKinley…

30-day Plank Challenge

I was getting a little bored with my walking and running routine and with my favorite 10 minute workout, so I decided to try something different for November. I saw a post in my fitness group for a 30-day Plank Challenge. I thought it would be good to build a little core strength since that…