Following the beautiful wedding at the Wayfarers Chapel, the cocktail hours began at the Villa. The Villa was technically not a reception destination, but a lavish condo in the nearby Terranea Resort where Jeff and Katie and separately, Katie’s family stayed during the trip to LA. It had three bedrooms, … [ more ]

For my birthday this year, Selena put together a most fun event modeled after the book series The Hunger Games.

She had us all meet at Bellevue State Park in Delaware and had set up a circle with 16 starting points around a Cornucopia of supplies in the center. When she … [ more ]

Every year a group of our friends go on a ski trip to the Poconos for the last weekend in January. This year, as always, I had it on my calendar, so we packed up the gear, including all we needed for baby Kaylee’s first ski trip. We even … [ more ]

We have some friends that we see nearly every month for a book club or game night. If we had a free night without Kaylee, I imagine we’d have no qualms with calling them up to see if they are available to get together.

Contrastingly, we have really close friends that … [ more ]

GiftTrap the game

I love the award-winning German board games that take forever to set up, but are still challenging, complex and fun to play (I’m looking at you Space Alert, Agricola and even to some degree Settles of Catan). So I was ready to be snooty and dismissive when … [ more ]

On Friday, January 29th I was standing beside a big projection screen in front of the entire company of The Motley Fool. I took a deep breath and began:

“Hi everyone, I’m Greg, and if you don’t know me it may be because you started working here in January and I’ve … [ more ]

A little late on the post, but here’s to another successful race at the Rockville Twilight 8K, so named for the time of day it is run, not because we were chased by sparkly vampires. Although, I definitely still had the monster complex going on.

But let’s face it, here’s the … [ more ]

For the past few years now, I’ve had a TV informant with an uncanny ability to scoop Entertainment Weekly and the TV Guide on every “Best Show You’re Not Watching.” Our friend Doug has been able to pick out the gems to follow, that then break out into phenomenons. Then … [ more ]