• The Best You Can Do

    The Best You Can Do

    We enter the world with a toolbox and time. How we use both determines our legacy.

  • Re-plant

    Everything fades into obscurity. Edifices, trees, street names, are created and endure for a time. Eventually everything changes, is uprooted, and vanishes. In a world focused on what feels important now, keep planting.

  • Opening Day

    Opening Day

    I love Opening Day. In Detroit, it’s still too cold and often too rainy. But none of that matters. It’s a new dawn and anything is possible.There’s a magic to Opening Day that transcends the past time. It’s the smell of freshly cut grass mingling with the scent of hot dogs, Stroh’s beer and peanuts,…

  • We’ve got to live

    We’ve got to live

    I’ve stopped reading The Economist. Not because of any decline in the quality of their reporting. But because they project the world through a negative lens.There is always a cloud on their horizon. They predict doom and gloom. And they always seem to project the worst possible outcome. With “Just the Facts” journalism becoming an…

  • The Dash Between the Years

    We’ve all seen them – headstones standing tall in silent graveyards. Each one tells a truncated tale, a name, a birth year, a dash, and then… another year. But have you ever truly considered the significance of that dash?

  • Ice Cream with Juliette

    Ice Cream with Juliette

    The things we do for our grandkids… in the rain.

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