Growing up I wanted to be Dick Butkus. In Louisville, KY in the 1960’s the Bears were the closest NFL team and they were on television most weekends. I became a fan of the Chicago Bears. And after walloping the Rams last night the Bears are looking good. With their remaining schedule including teams that […]

I long time ago my Mom started asking around the Thanksgiving table for everyone to state what they were thankful before anyone could eat. This was met with moans and groans at first but over the years have evolved into a bit of a tradition. We have been fortunate enough over the past few years […]

When I started this blog I declared that I was going to be sharing some of my personal values and goals. With a tip of the hat to NPR these are my personal core values. Bullet point style, I may elaborate later. Regardless, these are the things that I stand for and strive to be […]

It started last Thursday. A general tightening in my chest. Something that I assumed to be stress. Though given my current workload why I would be any more stressed than a sloth is hard to comprehend. By Saturday I feel a little worse. Started doing some upper body work to relieve the tension. Skip yoga […]

Bill’s Khakis, which I love, is having a Father/Son Baseball Memories Contest.  Here is my entry: My dad was a huge baseball fan.  He pitched for the University of Louisville and one of his biggest claims to fame was beating Sandy Koufax (true or not I do not know) when he was at the University […]

Long before Google made their corporate motto “Don’t be evil”, there was a little company in Atlanta called MindSpring. I started working at MindSpring pretty early on and ended up running business development, marketing, product development, and product management there. MindSpring did not have a motto, but it did have a purpose. By no means […]