Happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Pig Is Here! Hope everyone has an amazing new year – Chinese new year. So we are in early Feb in the Solar calendar and now we are at a new year in the Lunar calendar (Chinese). In Asia / in China / in my life – that means we can finally …
Will My Son Remember This?
Weekend is starting – and Miles was so excited to get things kicked off he was playing with Atom Man (Is that the toy’s name, I’m a disconnected parent now) and asked me to take a photo (well actually a video, but I’m not video blogging at the moment). So I snapped a couple photos and showed him Is he …
Call From Mom, For Any Day or Mothers Day
Browsing Facebook (often times I try so hard to not get distracted) there was a good one from Anna Wong of Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW) that shows a screenshot of a phone screen with a notification that “mom” is calling (the person’s contact name is mom). It went on to say that we need to pick this up – no …
Creative Juice
How do you get that juice flowing?
Hustle
If you search the blog here – you will find it written a ton of times. Many blogs are built on it. I almost think Gary Vee sticks in my head for a few minutes after I even think the word hustle! I think my mom thought I was saying a bad word the first time I mentioned hustle to …
My Girl Turns 3 – Children’s Development and Progress
If you want to see how fast life goes by – have kids. Jeez, it has been three years since my daughter Maggie was born! Also get a reminder from my domain registrar as I bought her domain on the day of her birth (yes, I’m a geek!). Been wondering what the best way to document my child’s progress. Documenting …
Ideas While Drunk? How Do You Release?
Getting Any Ideas While Drunk? Am I Missing Out By Being Sober? Early morning sober morning here as I type this up. Been sober for at least 3 years, maybe 4 (I can’t remember if I stopped drinking in 2014 or 2015) and reflecting on that. Some ask me why did I stop, or when did I stop – what …
Tools of Titans Notes
So I read and reviewed Tools of Titans book back in 2016 but realized I hadn’t put all my extensive notes on it (I wrote a ton of notes) here on the blog – what the heck? So I hope you enjoy these, they are notes – but been helpful for me to glance over as well through the years. …
Doing OK As a Single Dad (Bonding with Kids)
Quality time with the kids, maybe it isn’t so bad being a dad by yourself with 2 kids! Had a great weekend and wanted to share.
Dangers of Motorbikes in Thailand (And the Stories I Have Witnessed Already)
There are stats like Thailand has the highest amount of automotive accidents in the world. Living here a bit over 6 months I can understand why! In the six months I have already been here, I have had people close to me have 3 accidents, one of them being a death, and I thought I would document them here and …
Appreciate Your Parents
I know I have talked about this before- but it is so true – you really appreciate your parents once you become a parent yourself. Especially since I’m a “single dad” right now – it is overwhelming. Yet at the same time, kids just show you basic, raw human nature. Want food, sleep, entertainment. And just directly showing that they …
Preparing for Single Dad Life (again)
We will be….. Witnessing Single Dad Life Again So the wife is off to INDIA (crazy, yes, I know) for a Buddhist retreat this weekend. She flies out on Thursday morning and will be back “sometime next week” (return flight not booked yet). She says I have experience For those who remember – I went to USA without her last …
Building The Boy Scouts Website
Contributing Back To Boy Scouts – Remotely Boy Scouts had a huge positive influence on me growing up. It gave me structure to build on outside of the grind of school. I talk about my boy scout experiences more here and here if you’re curious. And over the holidays I was contacted by my Scout Master – Bill Gervais trying …
No Way Around it…Buying A Car In Thailand (And Backstory)
Seems Must Do It – Buying A Car In Thailand (And Backstory) Been delaying this reality – but seems we must do it – buy a car here in Thailand. Moved out here in mid August last year (2018) and had the goal to get a private driver to take our kids back and forth to school each day as …
Close Call
Close Call (Daughter Put a Bead Up Her Nose) Just a normal Saturday evening at home. Reading a book to Miles and Maggie when suddenly about halfway through the book Maggie says her nose hurts. She is scratching at it a bit. Trying to figure out and she says (in Chinese) “toy”. I call Wendy over to help. Maggie explains …