Apr 18, 2025 | Stress Management
I retired from my corporate job on March 31, 2024. The chickens said: “You won’t have anything to do. You need to stay put in your comfortable job.” As always, the chickens were wrong. Here’s what actually happened in my first year of “retirement”: I gave...
Mar 28, 2025 | Stress Management
TL;DR: I used AI to tighten a 7-minute story into a 5-minute speech—without cutting a single laugh—and won a major storytelling contest. AI didn’t write it, but it helped me rehearse, refine the message, and stick the landing. A few weeks ago, I entered the NSA Ohio...
Mar 21, 2025 | Stress Management
The Story: Why the Book Almost Didn’t Happen Ever had a project you really wanted to finish, but life (and your inner chickens) kept getting in the way? That’s exactly what happened with Fry Your Chickens! This book nearly didn’t get written. Not because...
Feb 28, 2025 | Stress Management
📖 The Wild Roller Coaster Ride A few years ago, I promised my son Joe that I’d ride a roller coaster with him. The year before, he wasn’t tall enough to ride the big coasters at Cedar Point, an amusement park in northern Ohio. I figured I was safe—a year was plenty of...
Feb 14, 2025 | Stress Management
This story is an excerpt from my upcoming book “Fry Your Chickens – Seven Strategies to Get the Chickens Inside Your Head to Shut the Cluck Up – coming in March 2025. It’s 1988. I’m in my cubicle, thinking about Beth—my coworker with the smile that...
Feb 2, 2025 | Stress Management
If you, like me, are a fan of late ’70s and early ’80s rock, you might recognize the subject line from the famous Meat Loaf song. If not that’s okay. This isn’t a music lesson, but it is a deep dive into a crucial lesson I’ve learned while writing my upcoming...
