Just before my wife and I welcomed our second child about six weeks ago, I was in a killer workout grove. I was getting up pre-dawn and getting a run or ride in every day. It seemed effortless. Caring for a newborn is no joke, and any free time you may have had pre-kid tends to disappear upon welcoming the …
Who came up with the saying “to sleep like a baby”? Because they sure never slept in the same room as a baby. Our newborn daughter sounds more like a pterodactyl than a baby when she sleeps. She spits out a constant sputtering of prehistoric sounds.
Have you ever heard of this thing? The Snoo is a rather expensive bassinet that rocks your baby and plays white noise when she starts to cry or get fussy. It seemed like a silly idea to me, until our second child came along, and decided that sleep was an activity she didn’t want to partake in. Our first child …
I’ve been on a solid streak of running, cycling and strength training over the past several months. It feels great to be making constant progress, and that progress is motivating. This week, I’ve been dealing with a really tight muscle in my left leg/hip area, and it has put a crimp on my training. Things have been going so well …
In today’s world you might think that any book title (or any title for that matter) that has “e” in it refers to “electronic”. I wouldn’t hold it against you if you did here, either, but in the case of The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber, the big E stands for entrepreneur. In this book Gerber talks in depth about …
My wife, Laura, made very accurate observation the other day. We’re in the throes of newborn-hood, and we’ve had lots of sleepless nights over the past month. Laura accurately described what it feels like having a newborn in the house: “It’s like getting up early for a flight, at like 4:00 am… every day.” The grogginess never quite leaves, and …
I recently moved, and now have a dedicated office in my home where I work on a daily basis. My laptop sits on my desk and rarely moves from it. Everything I need to get my work done is there. As long as I’ve been working from home I’ve always had a dedicated space in the house that serves as …
I rode my 2005 Specialized Allez for the first time this season today. It felt really strange having spent the last ten months or so riding my triathlon bike. As I was flipping through the screens on my bike computer, I noticed that the odometer was at somewhere over 18,600 miles. Now, I’d say I ride a pretty decent amount, …
A few years ago I came across some little notebooks, called Field Notes, for sale at Powell’s Bookstore in downtown Portland. I did a little research about the folks that made the notebooks and realized that one of the guys behind them was a fellow Traverse City native turned Portland transplant, Aaron Draplin. Furthermore, even though I’d never met the …
This week’s new read (listen) is Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss. So far there are some interesting techniques that Voss describes in the book, some of which I’m looking forward to applying. A full review may or may not come later, but for now I’ll give the book a thumbs up. There are definitely a lot of war …