Who’s Your NWI Loan Guy? Maybe It Should Be Scott Swinford
Life balances. Even when it comes to our economic woes… I’m a guy without a home of my own, so of course I keep running into people who if they aren’t building or selling homes, they’re helping people...
View ArticleBrian Connelly’s 2011 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Hey, guys, For those of you back in Northwest Indiana who’ve done any smidgen of internet marketing, you’ll know who Brian Connelly is. In short, he knows search engine marketing like the back of his...
View ArticleAnd he said, “Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.”
As I was fighting through the last of my taxes yesterday, trying to get everything together to be ready for the meeting with the accountant, I received a text that stopped me on a dime: A good friend...
View ArticleYou Already Bought the Ticket. So Take the Ride.
I had the best day in a long, long time when it came to the case studies for Project 03. Case study #1 phase one should be running this time tomorrow and case study #2 is underway. A beautiful three...
View ArticleWhat is the best blue cheese cheeseburger in Valpo? In #nwindiana? Anywhere?
So my banker, Kevin Gould, & I have been looking for a new adventure to start off 2013 – a cleanse the palate, clean the slate, turn the page, start the year off right sort-of-thing. We’ve also...
View ArticlePourin’ out a little for ‘Big Country’, Timothy Gajdik. 2 years, 3 days later.
On a normal Thursday morning at 8:26 AM, one of my two childhood best friends, Gag, would be at the bank, breaking vendor hardware and writing reports about it. I, on the other hand, would be 34...
View ArticleThe zen behind the Christmas all-night ride up to the Oregon Coast
It’s Christmas night. Katie and I are somewhere over The Rockies on a Southwest flight from Chicago to Oakland, heading home. The flight should land around 9:40pm, PDT. With Baggage claim and Jay...
View Article#EmmeSmiles despite the chronic pain, which you should help alleviate.
Emily Jo Theisen might be the most beautiful soon-to-be 4-yr-old in the world. It’s a helluva claim to make, but unlike many 3-yr-olds in this country, Emily has learned to appreciate the little...
View ArticleThe Minnesota Verdict – TBC
So I looked forward to my trip to Minneapolis. This was going to be a crossroads for Book of Blues. Good and great stuff keeps being said of Book of Blues. I need to hear something harsh. I don’t care...
View ArticleLydia’s WinconsTin and the Flight to Vegas
Last month I got to liveblog and tweet my first trade show from the trade show floor instead of from the office. Company jet, hotel room, and everything. The day before my first flight in the company...
View ArticleSteve Dalton – How a Northwest Indiana Mortgage Lender Can Teach Me the Ropes
Though I’m still convinced that at this point Sam Cooke has had a much better life than me, I am still gonna try to win. And I know I won’t do it alone. It’s probably why I started my “People Along The...
View ArticleMartin Rosenberg 2017-2018 World Traveling Adventure.
Katie offered to help him take his spare bags to the car when I stopped her. “He’s gonna have to learn how to do it.” They were headed to OAK airport and late. In two hours Marty was flying out of...
View ArticleJay
“There’s my blackness!” Jay would bellow when she saw Enzo in the apartment hallways, in our apartments, out in the park, on the way to the grocery store, out by the turtles. It didn’t matter. Her...
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