Marriage is hard, and that’s ok
Remember those days, when you were younger and newly married? Or maybe not even married yet? Life was grand! Sex was exciting, life was really just starting out, and without kids your life decisions...
View ArticleTattoos and Mustaches
One of the two main things most hipsters have on their person is tattoos and mustaches. I guess I’m a hipster about every other year or so, since that’s the frequency I’ve been growing a mustache. For...
View Article8 Takeaways from Neil Strauss’s The Truth book
As I was figuring out my new marital paradigm in the age of young kids and swallowing the red pill I was taking in any quality resource that I could. These resources set the table for my own change,...
View ArticleSpring. A time for fresh starts and new beginnings
Daylight savings time just switched and with that came Easter and the start of springtime. This is the time when we knock the rust off from the winter gloom and are reborn again. For me, I’ve been...
View ArticleSeparate Vacations – Two Weekends Straight
As a couple/family you make your own family traditions. Your growing-up family (mom/dad) traditions certainly help set the table, but it is really your choice. So shake stuff up if you want to, and set...
View ArticleFrom Pain Comes Change, plus What’s Next at AMD
Pain can be a great catalyst for change if you get over the motivation hump and implement a well thought out strategy. You can either cry about it, beat yourself up, play the victim card, or do...
View Article15 Years
I celebrated my 15 year wedding anniversary this week. We’ve been together nearly 18 years now. We’re good, but we’ve had our shares of ups and downs. We’re simply two different people. We have similar...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been up to lately (average married dad photos)
I haven’t been writing much at all. At least not here. Work as a Corporate Ladder Climber takes a lot of time. I do my best to be a good corporate soldier, but my happiness comes from simple things....
View ArticleSimple Life; Bad Week; Great Day
(Finally posting this, about a month old) Prologue: This was one of the weirdest, hardest, and drama filled weeks of my life. One of our former coworkers, and one of my boss’s best friend, died this...
View ArticleNew adventures and challenges 2018
So 2017 was very stressful for me, but we had a lot of good things in there too. My wife and I did a trip to Dominican in February. We bought a pop-up camper and did a long road trip to some great...
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