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THE PAIN OF PERFECTION

It’s hard for me to be anyone but me. People have told me to tone it done in certain social situations and while my head agrees and knows that there are norms that should be generally followed it’s hard for me to do that. I feel this real compulsion to be me, and to be [...]

AND SO IT BEGINS AGAIN… THE HOLIDAYS!

We had fun yesterday on Halloween with Dev. He dressed up as Michael Jackson from “Beat It Live in Bucharest,” showed some of his moves to strangers, then asked them for candy. But, let’s be real, Halloween is not a holiday. However it’s does seem to serve as the gateway to the real holiday season. [...]

HAPPY SNOW DAY!

Sometimes the snow comes on the perfect day, and today was that day. I was off work and the schools were closed. The wife is off on Fridays already, not that I’m jealous. We chilled out (literally and figuratively) and just enjoyed the perfect snow day.

INSPIRING DAD – LESSONS FROM THE PAST

I was re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I had to pause to take a deep breath a time or two. Not because his letter was a tear jerker – it’s not. It’s truth spoken to power and is not at all sentimental. The ideas from his letter that [...]