Last month, my wife and I hit the road for a long Memorial Day weekend visit to see my son Josh and his wife Madeline. They moved from Indiana to South Carolina a couple years ago and we were looking forward to seeing their new place and enjoying the weekend...
Everyone has their favorite stories about their Mom for Mother's Day and Dad for Father's Day that they will share on Facebook. I want to do a couple of things differently. My parent's love story is summed up in what happened in 1998 on Mother's Day weekend. My...
I don't know about you, but there are certain times that my mind clears and when that happens it is eye opening. Mowing the yard can be one of those times, but that's only part of the year. Often I take time to take the road less traveled in my daily commute. I get to...
At the end of 2016, I was preparing to launch a podcast version of the weekly articles I have been writing and publishing on The Genuine ScLoHo website and this is the very first episode that you can also listen to. Here's the link to this episode. Now that we have...
The last few months I've noticed something that may have been going on longer than just the last few months. Here's that something: The number of people who know me and see me face to face in "unplanned meets" has become substantial. Let me define "unplanned meets". I...
The term Hacking or Hacked is getting a bad rap. And a lot of times the term is misused. Today, I have a quick tip and explanation of something lots of people call Facebook Hacking. (It's not really hacking, but I'll get to that in a moment.) It happened to me the...
Sunday morning, the sun is shining through the coffee shop window and the usual suspects are here, including me. There are the families with little ones that are learning to walk and talk. The gang that racks their brain over the crossword puzzle in the paper. The...
In 2016 (and probably before), many of my friends noticed that their Facebook Newsfeeds was being filled divisive, argumentative and rude comments. Some decided to abandon social media or at least attempt to filter out the negative and return to the days of cat...
2016 is in the history books. GONE. Forever. No matter what you did, it's done. No matter what someone else did or any of us did in 2016... It's time to look forward. Face it. Some people are scared out of their minds as they look to the future. Have empathy. Others...