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For years, my wife and I hosted an annual Christmas party. We would invite friends and family into our home for an evening of celebration. For many of those who participated, this event was the [...]

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Ralph Waldo Emerson In a recent Northwind post entitled, Our Health System Isn’t Broken, [...]

The descent is slow. The degradation imperceptible. Step by step, we move closer each day toward insidious comfort. We’re drawn to the warmth of the blanket, the placid serenity of zero [...]

Opportunity is a relative notion. In 1997, I accepted a promotion within the high growth IT services company in which I worked and we moved to the Chicago area. It was an exciting transition. A [...]

I was blessed with the opportunity to coach youth athletics over a 12 year period while my kids were in grade school and middle school. Basketball, softball, and soccer filled every spare moment [...]

Business mirrors life and it is true that everything has its season. A time to push forward and a time to retreat. A time to fear and a time to be brave. A time to be grand and a time to [...]

Sweat cleanses from the inside.  It comes from places a shower will never reach.  ~George Sheehan A few years ago, we decided to step out of our yard and hired a lawn service to do the [...]