When it comes to blogging, my wife and I have been reading all the blogs imaginable on the internet about newborns. With our son, Emmitt, now being 3+ weeks old (born on June 20th, 2025), we constantly are wondering...is he ok? is it is suppose to look like that? is that sound normal? too much sleep? not enough sleep? too much to eat? not enough to eat? It's a spiral in which we read what other new parents have experienced. The verdict? There is never a straight forward answer and what we've learned is that every baby is different.
I’m not really a fan of the Home Run Derby. I get that it takes a lot of strength and coordination to hit a baseball out of the park, but I prefer games where there are more in-field hits and a chance to watch skilled fielding.
I was recently chatting with a friend about the traits that make for success. The premise of our conversation was to be profession or vocation agnostic and try to get down to what traits cross all types of work and are the bedrock of a successful career.
I need book recommendations.
We have a pool in our backyard. Usually, on the weekends, our kids come to enjoy the pool. Those days are filled with family tumult. Always fun but, definitely, tiring.
If we’re lucky, my husband and I would have one day over the weekend alone to enjoy the pool by ourselves and relax. My husband loves to putter around the pool. He has a hand vacuum that he loves to swim around the pool with.
So I receive a text 4:00 p.m. last Monday afternoon that Fox 5 News seeks to interview a representative of group I am involved with for their telecast that begins just over one hour later. The group's president, Susan Lee, who sent the text, and a former city council member and retired jurist, Kathryn Freed, who we prefer to use a spokespersons, are in transit and cannot do it.
I found an old note yesterday while leafing through my phone. It's a quote I typed in over 5 years ago. I’m not sure where it came from originally:
“Effortlessly flowing through life doing what I love to do.”
Now that is a state of being worth striving for.
My fellow Syracuse University graduate and Key West neighbor, Louis Petrone, aka "Key West Lou", achieved his 90th birthday this past Sunday.
