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  • Happy Birthday, Debbie

    This the third birthday Debbie has missed, or I guess more accurately it’s the third we’ve all missed without her. I sat down to type with storyline in mind, but whenever I think of her, the rush of stories and memories hit like a tsunami.  The Fellas are a couple of days into camp and […]

  • Six Months of Lockdown

    We’re a little over six months into the C19 world and The Fellas and I are still pretty locked down. We opted out of the return to in-person schooling. We haven’t hit any restaurants, we have stayed in a local water-park hotel, they don’t go to the grocery store with me and we’ve done one […]

  • Hazy Shade of Winter

    I pass no judgements on people’s love of originals versus remakes of songs. Your vote is your vote. There’s some buzz today about an updated version of “Hazy Shade of Winter” for a new show on the CW. I love love love the opening grind of the Bangle’s version. It is frequently one of those […]

  • one rule giving

    From time to time, in the midst of the beatdown-that-can-be-a-startup, I like to muse on “some day” when the hustle has reached fruition and the bank account overflows and millions have been lifted up by LIGHTHOUSE to lead happier more thriving lives.  Somedays my mind goes to easy things like paying for everyone’s college, or […]

  • $480 Phone Call

    I’ve been catching drips and drabs of a National Geographic Drama/Documentary (dromedary?) about the first Internet wave called “Valley of the Boom”. I very clearly remember losing my WWW virginity. It was early summer of 1994 and I was living in Tokyo. I had been “online” since 1984 in high school through Compuserve (where my […]

  • Merry Xmas Dee

    For some reason Mom comes to mind more often on the anniversary of her passing than on her birthday. Maybe it’s the proximity to Christmas and her love of the celebration and her deep-seated faith. Maybe personal-tragedy creates deeper grooves in the soul than some collection of days we sporadically celebrated. We mark the official […]

  • J’ai envie

    For work I’ve always got a panoply of Amazon devices that spring into action if I utter the phrase “Alexa” above a whisper. Today at lunch I was enjoying a little Tuna Ahi at my desk and one of the voice boxes started to autoplay a new Amazon Original series called “Romanov”. The premise isn’t […]

  • Get any tree you want, I said

    It looked great decorated with just white lights and silver bells.

  • NYC 24

    With school starting up and our partnership in full effect, I slightly raised the bar for NY travel these past three months. I got some snow, made it out to Connecticut a bunch of times, and enjoyed some Rockefeller Ice Skating. The recent highlight has definitely been Springsteen on Broadway…holy crap that was great. I’ve […]

  • Beautiful Hotels

    Sometimes when the startup is a beatdown, I imagine life “after” – when the earn out is done, the money is in the bank, and I’m traveling the world with some super smart hottie sucking the marrow from life. I collect the ‘experiences’ I want to pursue, either solo or coupled up or with The […]