This is the baseball glove I used during my Little League career, which ran from about 1978 to 1981. You can still see my name and uniform number (#14) written there, along with “McGee Real Estate” — my dad was the team sponsor. This is also the baseball glove that I used on Sunday during [...]
Read more →Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn’t mean treating everyone alike. That’s unfair, because everyone doesn’t earn the same treatment. Love this one. It’s the start of a section of the book called “A Leader Is Fair.” And it’s very true. I know it’s true in parenting. Kids always [...]
Read more →How on earth have I managed 12 years of home ownership without owning a leaf blower before now? Greatest. Tool. Ever. Only one downside: much less calorie burning via sweeping and raking.
Read more →Hate to get all Tony Robbins here, but I put this on Twitter and Facebook earlier today and also want to mention it here and bookmark it via a blog post because I really believe this to be true. Research shows what you say about others says a lot about you In a nutshell, how [...]
Read more →I was going to do a blog post here listing a bunch of my pet peeves. Then I realized that my family and friends would take that list and use it against me. I’d never be able to avoid them. Ack! So that idea is dead. Moral of the story: Avoid blogging mistakes by thinking [...]
Read more →Our summer-long contest between ground-based tomatoes and the Topsy Turvy planter is over, and it’s not even close. This contest was kinda like the New York Yankees against a local T-ball team. The tomato plants that we put in the ground in our front yard are dominating the Topsy-Turvy plants … not to mention dominating [...]
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