Category: Personal

Soaring Paulina 0

Soaring Paulina

It’s always an honor to be asked to speak publicly… as well as a source of incredibly anxiety for many 😳. Better than being asked yourself is when someone you’ve watched (and hopefully helped!)...

Labor Day ’22 is more than BBQs in California 0

Labor Day ’22 is more than BBQs in California

Since joining the restaurant industry back in 1997, Labor Day has become my least favorite holiday. While many gather with family on beaches and grill burgers and dogs in their backyards, millions of others...

Day 1001 1

Day 1001

At 52, it’s really, really hard to develop new habits, and just as hard if not harder to drop old habits. Yesterday I hit 1,000 days since my last alcoholic drink. I think its...

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Trudging

This Kindle highlight from Mary Pipher’s “Writing to Change the World” should bring great peace of mind to the countless aspiring writers who are starting, stopping, sprinting, pausing, hitting brick walls, giving up, starting...

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Winning by Losing

Most professionals can’t actually internalize the following thoughts on grit by Adam Grant. As someone who has long subscribed to passion and perseverance as, literally, my top two character traits, I can attest that...

My Week on Oxy 0

My Week on Oxy

DRAFT: I wrote this 10 years ago, a few days after my 3rd ACL Surgery at MGH. Last week I got a crash course on drug abuse. And it was all legal. And today,...

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Receiving Inspiration

Most days we humans tend to look for inspiration from “above”… those individuals or companies or groups who are well-known, have large followings, have built a reputation such that almost anything they say is...