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It has been a crafty Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day. In fact, (and probably more importantly for a lot of you), happy Friday. It is a beautiful day in Miami. I won’t rub it in too much for my friends to the north who’ve experienced one of the crappiest winters on record. The warmth is coming soon, we hope. We’ll send some sun your way. My girlfriend Tara is generally sleep-deprived, punching keys on...

New Year: From Miami with love on this holiday

Welcome to 2014. We hope you had a safe and wonderful New Year’s Eve. We do what we do every year – get all dressed up for no apparent reason, make food, watch (more like hear) fireworks outside on our balcony and ring in the new year quietly. We’ve never been big on shelling out ‘Miami-Cash’ for a night out on New Year’s Eve. We could hear Pitbull’s...

Last game at the Metrodome in Minnesota

The last of the Metrodome Today is bittersweet. The Vikings of Minnesota are playing the Lions of Detriot in the last game at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Update: The Vikings won the game 14-13 over the Lions). It’s actually ‘Mall of America Field’. But to Minnesotans, it’s always been called The Dome. It’s bittersweet because many are happy to see it go...

A Minnesota Christmas in 6.5 days

Tis’ that time of year again. I’m back in good ol’ Scandia, Minnesota for ‘early Christmas’. I can’t remember the last time I’ve celebrated Christmas on its actual day. While in the TV News business, I rarely had Christmas off. Now that I am in a ‘commercial break’ from the business, I have all the time in the world. But my girlfriend...

When Jury Duty calls

It took 34 years for a jury summons to arrive in my mailbox. I knew it was coming, I just never knew when. But alas, it’s arrived. So here I am in the Jury Pool awaiting my instructions at Dade County Court in Miami, Florida. Getting here wasn’t an issue. It was about four minutes from my apartment. But surprisingly, I never ‘drive’ downtown for anything. So today I had...

The next generation is ready to take over

My mind was blown today. I was cranking out some work at my desk when my FaceTime started going off. Thanks to Apple’s new update, ALL of my devices started blowing up. Turned out it was my nephew. I clicked him on and we chatted about ‘something cool’ he just had to show me. He flipped his iPod around and pointed it at my brother’s computer screen. This is about how the...

SkyMall hits a homer with ‘One of a kind shirts’

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to jump on Christmas ideas early this year. And since I’m on a flight to Chicago, there’s no better way to generate ideas than SkyMall magazine for the perfect gift. And lookie here, I’ve already found it: One of a kind shirts, for one of a kind men. Who wouldn’t want to stand out in a crowd wearing a $130 cotton shirt made...

Desk job? You need this lower back stretch

Are you a desk jockey? Sitting at your desk all day can be a drag, especially if you have a window view. Watching the birds frolic and the runners pass is enough to drive anyone into a guilt-ridden straight-jacket of frustration. If that’s not bad enough, there is a massive amount of evidence that sitting at the desk all day is literally killing you. An example. And another. Ahhh nother...

20 amazing life hacks you never knew

If the term ‘life hack’ is new to you, it won’t be for long. Life hack, or ‘life hacking’ is any productivity trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life; in other words, anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way. I love helping people figure stuff out. And I’m equally...

Hello, old friend

Man, it’s great to be back. It’s amazing what unplugging from your online life for a month can do for a person. We don’t really find clarity in what we’re doing day in and day out until we stop and actually attempt to smell the roses. I learned I can live without checking social media updates every day, that’s for sure. And lets just say I learned about a thousand...

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