A Moment of Silence

” And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That’s one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!” I sometimes reenact this scene from the Grinch as the day begins. The barking dog at 5:15am, the crying baby, the toddler who’s new favorite phrase is “that’s annoying”, and the nine year […]

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A six pack for a 6 pack

As I am sitting down at work balancing between dashboards, spreadsheets, and video conference calls my wrist vibrates. I look down, “wanna go for a stroll?” flashes across my Fitbit. I look at my remaining schedule and see I have a 15 minute gap and decide to take a walk to the cafe and grab […]

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30 Day Checkpoint

Let’s paint the scene: we’re driving home from a blow-out Celtics game, chatting it up after a day working in the city. We normally office 5 miles from home but today we ventured into Boston, both of us with meetings there. As we’re talking about the day, the game, our boys, conversation drifted to this […]

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Relax and Accept the Crazy

Phew what a day. One of those days you look back and start to say “that is the day I started to lose my hair” or at least my patience. Parenting is hard. The hardest thing I have ever done. Sometimes you take the small wins and feel like you have concurred the world and […]

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Iron sharpens Iron…

Irons sharpens Iron. This was a term I have heard all my life but really didn’t fully understand what it meant until recently. Growing up I always had the image that to be a man you had to be tough, rough, firm and strong. Which you do. But now as a father of 3 boys […]

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