You might want to confirm “jean day” with someone more official than your friend the night before via email or you and your friend (and your little brothers) might be the only ones in school not in uniform and need to come home to change.

Free admission to the major museums draws a crowd downtown like rednecks to a stock car race.

Online access is only until 7 pm Saturday, not midnight.

Just like dog training is really about training the owner, child discipline is all about the parents.

It might look like a sales problem, but it’s really a lack of alignment, engagement, and effective communication.

Give very short and clear directions then walk away. Don’t ask. Don’t hang around to temp disrespectful responses.

Exposing the boys to science and engineering does get them interested and thinking about their future.

Working on this blog every day for a year was totally worth it.

Working on building relationships to gain influence is much harder than enforcing consequences with authority, but much more effective and rewarding in the long term.

Telling them you will defend them and take up their issue – and then doing it – builds trust.

The bottom pulls the top down more easily than the top pulls the bottom up.

When a priest invites you for dinner after Mass, you go.

8 yards is the right amount of mulch for the house (not 9).

Networking coffee needs to end after one hour…not two.

I really need to come up with a good reason not to take it because the turnaround consulting gig continues to seem like a great fit.

Keep moving forward and when the leaders falter, you may find yourself in a position to win. #martinsville

Even though it was 70 degrees, March might have been too early to switch the fans for summer.

Regardless of what the calendar says, a toasty fire wards off the chill of freezing temperatures.

Painting ceilings is as uncomfortable and tiring as I remember.

Good things happen when you’re in the right place at the right time.