by Paul Sullivan | Dec 6, 2024 | Friendship
At dinner on our 17th wedding anniversary, my wife handed me a card and laughed. It was very sweet on the outside, and on the inside, it read: Happy Valentine’s Day. Our anniversary is in December. I smiled. It was the perfect card for us, two working parents with three kids and three dogs and […]
by Paul Sullivan | Nov 27, 2024 | Friendship
What am I most thankful for this holiday season? My relationship with my wife, by far. Without her, none of the other really great things…
by Paul Sullivan | Nov 8, 2024 | Friendship
I got an email from a conference I attended two weeks ago that prompted me to think about the most important takeaway from that day…
by JR Havlan | Oct 17, 2024 | Friendship
Writing a good joke is hard to do. Writing a good dad joke is even harder. Why? Because you have to walk a thin line between funny and…
by Paul Sullivan | Jan 26, 2024 | Friendship
Every year for the past two decades, I’ve had lunch with my closest friends from high school. It’s never not happened, but this year I was nearly the guy to ruin it. I postponed it twice for work and childcare reasons. My wife thought I was crazy for shoehorning it...
by Paul Sullivan | Nov 24, 2023 | Friendship
Here’s a story about a working parent’s journey from awareness to frustration to complaint (with a detour into unproductive grumbling) and…