Musings at Altitude

As we pulled away from the gate today, I faded off to sleep like I always seem to do at the beginning of any of my travels.  It doesn’t matter what time, what time zone, or what my state of sleeplessness  – I just always seem to be lulled into sleep as the plane pulls […]

I think my anxiety is just now starting to ease – but for just a few minutes now, life was really, really tense.  Those of you that are parents will soon know exactly what I’m talking about.  With my wife out of town, I picked up my 13 year old daughter at the bus stop […]

I’m heading home from Alaska now, landing in Denver just in time to spend a couple hours with my wife in the United Red Carpet Club before she heads down to Biloxi to visit with her father and I go home to spend 24 hours with the kids (when they’re not in school), take in […]

I just spent 2 days north of the Arctic Circle in a 450 person village in Alaska, where the beauty of God’s creation is all around, where the pace of life is based on the basics of living rather than the expectations of others, and where the typical insanity of business life in the “lower […]

I had a crisis yesterday – my track ball on my blackberry decided not to actually track down the screen.  It would go up.  It would go right and left.  But it wouldn’t lead the cursor down the screen.  For those of you as dependent on technology as I am, you understand the incredible crisis […]

               Altitude High clouds, rough winds, thin air,      Altitude is what we seek; Minds freed, thoughts soar, smiles soft,      Solitude is finally reached. Miles pass, bright sun, blue sky,      Optimism seems everywhere; Sweet dreams, high hopes, plans made,      Altitude has got us there. Books closed, bags stored, ground soon,      Preparation […]

Before I headed off to the airport today, my wife, my oldest daughter, and I stopped by PF Chang’s for lunch before we took the 70 mile drive to drop me off for my next trip.  Sticking to form, we all ordered what we typically order – lettuce wraps for the daughter, crispy honey shrimp for […]

It’s a beautiful day here and I’m trying to work.  Unfortunately, school is out and now the kids are home.  That means work is a shared environment now, even with the door closed.  My 13 year old daughter just crashed my work party and the dialogue went something like this: Her:  “What are we having […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about partners lately – my partner at home; my partners in life; my partners in business – not in regards to changing those partners (hope my wife didn’t jump to that conclusion!) but in regards to how partners when chosen properly create enormous upside in life and in business, and when […]

With the Avalanche on a brief down period as they wait to determine who they will play in the next round of the playoffs, my 13 year old daughter has shifted her focus to other more important issues – filling up every single minute of her day with “stuff” to do.  Today’s focus is on […]