I firmly believe that “Sheryl Sandberg will likely be one of the most influential people of the technology and digital age” and was pleased to learn last week that she would be releasing a book titled Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will […]

Taking my own advice in school and TEDx Tampa Bay
This past Friday was the end of my fourth week since returning to college at The University of Tampa since receiving my Associate in Arts from Hillsborough Community College in 2004. It was also the first day of class that […]

Spring already? 35 is going fast but so is my running!
It is now officially Spring. They same time flies when you are having fun and gets faster as you get older. Do some people become unhappy as they age in an effort to slow down time? Because the exponential effect of having […]

Thoughts on Running, Tampa, Inspiration and the New Year
I am proud to say that I have completed my goal of running 200 miles in 2012. I ran 6.26 miles today bringing my total to 201.26 miles run outdoors. I did not set out this year to run 200 miles. […]

Steve Jobs: Perseverance, Efficacy and Death’s Influence on Lifestyle Design
With the death of Steve Jobs we have lost a great creator, innovator, and inspiration. We have lost someone who understood the need to choose passion for life over work for the sake of work. We lost someone who, while wildly […]

With Komen 5K, my 2011 running goal is almost complete
Yesterday I completed the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K in downtown St Petersburg, my third of four planned competitive 5K’s for 2011. My final 2011 race will be Richard’s Run for Life on 11/4/2011 in Ybor City. I […]

With Moffitt the Running Continues
I’m now in my fifth month and starting to consider myself a bit of a runner. With just over 80 miles and 14 hours logged I am very pleased to still be finding it fun, relaxing and a new way […]

Couch to 5K Gasparilla Success
Not as part of a New Years Resolution but really just because the timing was right I started running the first week of January with the goal of running the Gasparilla Distance Classic on February 26, 2011. I ran a […]

Brother (Joey) Goes Global
The biggest news this month for my close family and friends has been my brother’s departure to Africa to start an indefinite vagabond/migration/exploration of the world. His lose itinerary has him making stops in Ethiopia, Somliland, Dubai, and parts of the the […]
The odds against them?
An Orlando Sentinel article was published on the odds of losing a shuttle and crew increasing to 1-in-8 if the 10 flights are added after 2010. The tone of the story makes me wonder about our history of discovery and ask. […]