Adventurer | Cynic | Raconteur | Stones Fan
From hiking in Arches in 106 degree weather to horseback riding in Bryce Canyon to breaking my shoe in the muck in the Narrows – it was an epic adventure exploring the Mighty Five and Dead Horse Point State Park, where I finally understood why they call one district in Canyonlands “Island in the Sky”.
I’ve looked at thousands of houses over the years, and one of the fastest ways to get a conversation sideways is to start with the sentence, “My house is worth $X.” Sometimes the number came from an online estimate. Sometimes a neighbor sold for that amount. Sometimes an agent mentioned what the house might bring […]
The court website will tell you what forms to file. It will show you the steps. The sequence. The structure. If you follow it carefully, you can get through the process. What it won’t tell you is what this actually feels like. Because the hardest part of probate in Wayne County isn’t the paperwork. It’s everything happening […]
I wrote about this back in 2009. The idea was simple then, and it hasn’t changed: most people confuse activity with accomplishment. If anything, it’s worse now. We have more tools, more systems, and more ways to organize, track, and optimize how we work. You can build an entire environment around your productivity – apps, […]
You’ll hear people say: “Nobody quits being a landlord after one bad tenant.” That sounds good. It also isn’t true. I’ve seen people get out after one. In Detroit. And in a lot of cases? They had no idea what they were walking into. What They Saw (And Why It Looked So Good) They saw […]
I’ve always loved this quote first uttered by a Prussian Field Marshal 155 years ago and often repeated: “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Everyone nods when they hear it. Then they go right back to treating the plan like it’s gospel. Especially the less experienced crowd. You see it all the […]
