Life is sometimes difficult.  I want my blog to be a helpful, witty read for everyone who visits.  I also want to talk about things in life that are substantive and even hard to write about.   Fourteen years ago my brother Robby had brain cancer at age 11.  Our family stayed at the Ronald McDonald House in New York City during his operation and his…

  Call me Ishmael. I’m using the opening line from Moby Dick to begin my blog because I wasn’t sure how or where to start and it worked really well for Herman Melville. I had the idea for a blog several years ago but life, work, relationships, etc. take time and I procrastinated. Several years ago I saved a quote…