According to writer Joseph Epstein, “81 percent of Americans feel that they have a book in them — and should write it.” My wife refuses to believe this statistic. Further research on the topic (okay, one Google search) indicated that only 3% of aspiring authors finish a manuscript and only…

Beware: There’s a difference. — My ADHD used to play tricks on me. I would find a project and become hyper focused on it for months. I was all-in, whether it was starting a new business, running for office, or creating an app. One year my brother-in law called to ask me if I had…

An excerpt from my upcoming book: Ten Days with Dad: finding purpose, passion, and peace during the darkest days of Alzheimer’s Home is where your story begins. Stenciled on our kitchen wall for more than twelve years, I saw those six words every day. They were just words on the…

My Christmas Wish If one more person tells me it doesn’t feel like Christmas, I might lose it. I don’t begrudge them — the virus is back (did it ever really leave), tornados are ripping through Minnesota (in December), it’s almost 60 degrees in Boston today, and I am still…

Below is an excerpt from my new book, Ten Days with Dad: finding purpose, passion, and peace during the darkest days of Alzheimer’s. It takes about eighteen months before you get to know someone, at least that’s what Laura Schlessinger, more commonly known as Dr. Laura, says on her weekly…

Excerpt from my first soon-to-be-published non-fiction novel: Ten Days with Dad: fining purpose, passion, & peace during the darkest days of Alzheimer’s and a global pandemic Before closing its doors for good in 1993, St. Margaret’s Hospital in Dorchester was once the largest maternity hospital in Massachusetts. Several notable Bostonians…

My Kia Sedona minivan was three months shy of being fully paid off. Not having a car payment is like not having credit card debt. It’s an amazing feeling and something in which to be proud. But on St. Patrick’s Day, another vehicle blew threw a four-way stop intersection and…

The most successful person in my family applied to only two schools Four seniors in my daughter’s all-girl Catholic high school applied to 18 or more colleges. Another dozen or so applied to 12+ colleges. That doesn’t sound too bad, right? …