This past weekend, I ran the inaugural Chicago 13.1 Half-Marathon in the historic West Side of Chicago, IL. The race featured several elite-level runners, a three-time Chicago Marathon winner, and an Olympic marathon runner in Galen Rupp (pretty cool!). It was pretty inspiring to see them whizzing by as they…

Yesterday, I completely bombed an interview I had been looking forward to for the past two weeks. It wasn’t because I wasn’t prepared for the questions, but I don’t think I was mentally prepared to be telling my story at that time. I kind of froze up and found myself…

I try to be an honest and forthright person (emphasis on “try”), but there’s always this one situation where I am tempted to lie and that when someone asks me the often innocent, but rarely terse question: “How are you?” “I’m fine! How are you?” Now, don’t get me wrong…

Greetings! Happy Monday here from the snow-filled city of Chicago. One of the things I find incredibly interesting is observing and watching my young child develop his own unique personality and interests. My son is a lot like me in that he is introverted-extrovert, but he has the facial attributes…

Two months ago, I re-watched Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls “Last Dance” documentary, because I thought it was that good of a documentary and I wanted to see what I might have missed from watching it the first time. My wife re-watched it over the holiday season as well…

When I studied Political Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, I was always intrigued by Greek Literature. The traditional Greek hero is one of the most archetypical characters in literature and has defined the way many modern ‘heroes’ are written or acted out today. He is usually of noble…

As I touched on in my previous post, my goal for this new year is to find more ways to write to not only communicate better and more effectively, but also to reflect on this year and in the years to come. Today, I wanted to talk about the concept…

Happy New Year! For me, I feel an enhanced since of starting a new on m birthday, my wedding anniversary, at the start of a run, and on New Years Day. It’s a truly magical feeling! Hence, the notion of making new year’s resolutions. Often, I can stick to them…

I remember it being an almost mild and rather calm winter day when we got the word from our son’s school. This was two days before the Mayor of Chicago would shutdown the city due to Covid-19. There was a lot of talks about Illinois postponing the elections after hearing…