1. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it's due, while an attitude of gratitude is a downpayment on a life well-lived. 2. You get...

A few months ago, I was selling a home in Grant Park that contained a ton of books that the seller was going to convey with the home. I...

In my brief 50 years on this earth, I have come to realize that while we do fight for the same things other animals fight for (food,...

When I was growing up in Clanton, Alabama in the 1970s and early 1980s, a fireplace was a necessity in our house. We had baseboard...

Every year on my birthday, my dad calls me. We don't talk an awful lot throughout the year. But like clockwork, every single April 13, he...

Yesterday morning, I got up at 7:30, showered, jumped in the car, stopped at BP to gas up and grab a coffee and muffin, then set off on...

As a family of five in the '70s and '80s in Clanton, Alabama, we had the idyllic life. My younger twin brothers and I lived with our...

When I came out to a handful of my closest friends in high school, it was during a time in 1980s Alabama when you would never do such a...

You know, sometimes you have to go back -- alone, all by yourself -- and make yourself retrace your steps to see just how far you've...

Happy 100th birthday today to the United States National Park Service! Funny story ... about 15 years ago, Carl and I went to my mom Jan...

When I got out of my corporate job and started my real estate career 10 years ago, one of the things I craved right off the bat was to...

7 years ago, my mom, who lives in Alabama, graduated from law school in LA (yes, Los Angeles, not Lower Alabama). She did the same work,...

A little levity and positivity for your Friday commute... so, Carl and I took a walk through the Alki Beach neighborhood of West Seattle...

For as long as I can remember, I've had a problem with cacophony. It's only gotten worse as I've gotten older (if you've ever gone out to...

Happy July 1, everyone. The year is now halfway over. How's everybody doing? I want to share with you what I feel is the BEST HALF-YEAR...

Today, June 21, is the longest day of the year. Always has been. Matter of fact, there's an hour of eastern-time-zone sunlight left as I...

So, I just got done with one of my hardest transactions in over a year... like, literally just now... where I wasn't sure if it was going...

So, I bought a condo in Midtown a couple months ago to use as my private office space. While I've had a lot of fun furnishing it over the...

In the summer of 1989, I spent three weeks in the USSR as part of a student exchange program. On this trip, I spent a day with a family...

So, last night I took Carl to go see Cirque du Soleil's Kurios. When we entered the big top, they had ushers galore showing everyone to...