When we are thinking about moving toward a more equitable society, we should consider ease access to leveling up. You can read more about the idea here. I was talking to my friend Alan yesterday about a bunch of things that we both agreed with, but hadn’t talked much about ever. We talked about the...Read More

Most ideas that end up being written about on here come from Meg and I sitting in our chairs our out by the fire after the kids have gone up to bed. Usually there are four or five powerful ideas that we talk about. When one of us says something interesting or unique, the other...Read More

At the end of today, we will be halfway done with June. Meg and I made it a priority to write or produce some type of content every day during the month of June. We needed to jumpstart our blog site and this seemed like one way to accomplish that. 15 days in and we...Read More

As of June 14, 2020, my sister Ashley might be the only person that reads anything we post on this site. For now, I’m ok with that. We’re still figuring out what our message is or what we are actually trying to accomplish by writing something every day. We’ll get there eventually. In the mean...Read More

If you live in a city, you have seen these guys. Here are a couple quick thoughts on scrapping. Read More

Ok, so this is going to probably be one of those posts that I have to come back to later. Because of that, I am going to keep it simple to start. Maybe I’ll just lay out the situation. Big decisions are never easy for me. I guess they aren’t for any one. For some...Read More

Over the past months I have made an effort to read more Black authors.  It started with Ta-Nehisi Coates new book, The Water Dancer then Trever Noah’s book, Born a Crime and I just finished Alicia Keys book, More of Myself.  I have enjoyed reading each of these books and learning from them.  I think being...Read More

It took about 10 seconds to find an article depicting some of the negative characteristics of my zip code. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2018/12/07/53206-facts-milwaukees-troubled-zip-code/2237529002/ Below is an excerpt from the article linked above. In red are a couple of comments about the statistics mentioned. — Here are five fast facts about 53206: 1. A 2013 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study found it...Read More

I struggled to write the last blog post. It was easy to write part three, but part 4 didn’t seem natural. I wanted to put empathy first, but I couldn’t figure out how to write about it. Then it hit me after I finished writing Part 4. There are two types of empathy, at least...Read More

A friend of mine, who is a big Bucks fan, suggested we go down to the protest that was starting at the Fiserv Forum earlier yesterday. I had a bunch of stuff on a list of things to do which would normally mean I would make up a reason not to go. I offered to...Read More