“There’s my blackness!” Jay would bellow when she saw Enzo in the apartment hallways, in our apartments, out in the park, on the way to the grocery store, out by the turtles. It didn’t matter. Her boisterous, joyous voice would fill up the space and elevate the energy of any place. Enzo and Lily would […]
People Along the Way
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Martin Rosenberg 2017-2018 World Traveling Adventure.
Katie offered to help him take his spare bags to the car when I stopped her. “He’s gonna have to learn how to do it.” They were headed to OAK airport and late. In two hours Marty was flying out of Oakland, down to LAX for a connecting flight to New Zealand tonight. From there, […]
#EmmeSmiles despite the chronic pain, which you should help alleviate.
Emily Jo Theisen might be the most beautiful soon-to-be 4-yr-old in the world. It’s a helluva claim to make, but unlike many 3-yr-olds in this country, Emily has learned to appreciate the little things. She didn’t get a choice. 3-year-old Emily has chronic pancreatitis. She can’t grow out of it. It doesn’t go away with […]
The zen behind the Christmas all-night ride up to the Oregon Coast
It’s Christmas night. Katie and I are somewhere over The Rockies on a Southwest flight from Chicago to Oakland, heading home. The flight should land around 9:40pm, PDT. With Baggage claim and Jay picking us up, we should be home before 11pm. After five nights of little sleep and hanging with friends & family during […]
Pourin’ out a little for ‘Big Country’, Timothy Gajdik. 2 years, 3 days later.
On a normal Thursday morning at 8:26 AM, one of my two childhood best friends, Gag, would be at the bank, breaking vendor hardware and writing reports about it. I, on the other hand, would be 34 minutes away from pretending to wake up. So when he called at 8:26am on Thursday morning, June 7th, […]
What is the best blue cheese cheeseburger in Valpo? In #nwindiana? Anywhere?
So my banker, Kevin Gould, & I have been looking for a new adventure to start off 2013 – a cleanse the palate, clean the slate, turn the page, start the year off right sort-of-thing. We’ve also been looking for something that’d we’d both love to write about for almost a year. Then it happened […]
You Already Bought the Ticket. So Take the Ride.
I had the best day in a long, long time when it came to the case studies for Project 03. Case study #1 phase one should be running this time tomorrow and case study #2 is underway. A beautiful three hour session with a couple inspired, motivated ladies who are looking to do good things […]
And he said, “Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.”
As I was fighting through the last of my taxes yesterday, trying to get everything together to be ready for the meeting with the accountant, I received a text that stopped me on a dime: A good friend of mine wrote me and let me know that she was undergoing testing and the doctors have […]
Brian Connelly’s 2011 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Original: 2011-06-11 Hey, guys, For those of you back in Northwest Indiana who’ve done any smidgen of internet marketing, you’ll know who Brian Connelly is. In short, he knows search engine marketing like the back of his hand, helps advance our area’s workforce farther ahead into the 21st century job market, is a newly-christened father, […]
Who’s Your NWI Loan Guy? Maybe It Should Be Scott Swinford
Life balances. Even when it comes to our economic woes… I’m a guy without a home of my own, so of course I keep running into people who if they aren’t building or selling homes, they’re helping people get home loans. It’s the circles we run in from time to time. Perhaps life is telling […]