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A Perfect Day with My Mother

Posted in People, personal stories, society, tagged , , , on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I had an amazing mother’s day. My mother’s always been a people person. She has great timing with stories and jokes. She easily entertains in group settings, and is quick to laugh. Despite this, we didn’t always get along when I was a teenager. As a mother, she could be extremely demanding and my adolescence [...]

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A Great View of Chicago and a Shout Out to One of Its Entrepreneurs

Posted in business, entrepreneur, travel, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Chicago is a great city. It’s got grit and flash. Regardless of the fact that the US Census lists Los Angeles as the second most populace city in the US, I consider Chicago the “second” city. After all, is Los Angeles really a city? Of course, I get a bit of a distorted perspective of [...]

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Learning Through Parenthood, A Humbling Experience

Posted in personal stories, society, tagged , , on January 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Parenthood is a humbling experience. It is a rewarding experience. It is a growing experience. Children are a reflection of their parents. Maybe that’s why parenting can be so frustrating. I’ve gone through different phases of parenthood. Of course, there is the “overwhelmed stage” as a young parent. We had our two boys 11 months [...]

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Smaller Living Quarters Help Families, Companies

Posted in People, business, management, personal stories, tagged , , , on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, we moved into a Seattle downtown condo, 1,500 square feet of urban living. It’s been great so far, but I was a bit worried about having enough room when our second son comes home during his college breaks. Surprisingly, however, all of us living in such close proximity of each other has been yet [...]

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Aging is Apparently my Fault

Posted in personal stories, society, tagged , , , on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

As I get older, one person seems particularly upset about my aging progression. No, it’s not my wife. She actually doesn’t seem much bothered by me aging as she is very much more concerned about looking youthful herself. No, it’s not my kids. In fact, they would prefer for me to act and look older [...]

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Grandmother, Grandson ‘Bond’ through Texting

Posted in People, lifehacks, personal stories, tagged , , , , , , on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

My mother (71-years-old) called me excitedly to tell me that she had a “text” conversation with my son Jef (20-years-old) yesterday. Here is a creatively paraphrased version of the conversation as I understood it (I put in parenthesis what I imagine they were thinking). Grandmother: “Hi Jeffrey, this is grandma. I was thinking of you. [...]

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Hunting and Clubbing Little White Balls As a Family Tribe

Posted in lifehacks, society, tagged , , on July 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

My father, brother-in-law, brother and I played golf together today. It was a comical foursome on a scorching day  in Seattle. My father started playing golf about nine months ago at the age of 72. He’s lost some mobility due to a surgery to remove calcium deposits in his neck that constricted his spine. Nonetheless, [...]

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Analytics and Optimization to Measure Your Performance Within Your Family

Posted in Digital Marketing, self-improvement, web analytics, tagged , , , , on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

  The concept of Digital Analytics and Optimization is to measure all digital marketing initiatives against a set of KPI’s (key performance indicators) to ensure proper performance and to find ways for improvement.  Wow, that’s some marketing jargon. But the concept is simple.  Why do you have a web site? Your most important reasons are [...]

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