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My Pre-New Year’s Present And What Kaiser Taught Me About Customer Service!
Keeping customer service and mission at the forefront of an organization’s work is often one of the most difficult things a company or principal can champion. I will discuss my feelings about the birthing process and my first days as a father in another blog, but I was moved during our process by the customer service we experienced. Kaiser Hayward was our birthing center and I must say, I was moved by every aspect of…
YOU’RE NOT GROWN YET
So me and the wife had this debate about how to raise a little girl. Man, I feel like I’m walking down this fatherhood conversation gauntlet every time my wife responds to me. LOL I don’t really believe in anything greatly different for boys than girls. At least not today. It seems like young men are often encouraged to live out their truth and are championed for exploring. It seems that society often places a…
COUNTING DOWN
I’ve been to a number of doctor appointments over the past couple of months and none of them get easier. I tell you, I’ve learned a lot over these months and have watched this peanut grow to a wiggler, to a pineapple, and now a watermelon! It has been this amazing journey of certainty and uncertainty, fear and no fear, humility, and excitement. A coworker said her kid in her stomach is like an alien….
TO A RESTAURANT IN WEST OAKLAND: YOU KICKED US OUT OF YOUR KITCHEN!
*Note: I wrote this email the day after this event. As of December 1, 2011, no response. I’m torn about having or wanting to write this email at all. But the notion of building our communities and neighborhood is at the heart of this email. I came to your restaurant (Brown Sugar Ktichen) on more than one occasion and was impressed with your take on chicken and waffles. Being an L.A. native, Roscoe’s was my…
LIFE IS ABOUT CONQUERING CHALLENGES
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to interact with some special people that I met. I remember speaking to this particular person about self-worth, values, love, and inner beauty. I remember challenging this person to look outside of the situation that they were living in and press the reset button to reestablish the rules of the relationship. Wow. Why would I say that? Well, we are often byproducts of our last relationships or…
TIME SHOULDN’T BE A BLUR: IN TIME MOVIE REVIEW
My first movie review. So me and the wife went to see In Time with Justin Timberlake. It didn’t end so well, but the story was quite interesting. The writers of the movie impressed me with how they wrote a story that is so relevant to today. Time as metaphor for money/class. Interesting concept. You have this guy (JT) who is poor and lives a day-to-day life. Sound familiar? He wakes up every day without…
Keeping Me Engaged! Marriage Is Not A Singular Event
(Note: This is a repost of a blog I’ve previously written, but I thought you might like. Yes, today is not Sunday, it’s Friday. Happy Veteran’s Day to my Uncle C, cousin LA in Memphis, and cousin R in Florida and to anyone else I missed.) Quick post for this fabulous Sunday. I believe my wife has come up with the perfect remedy for all women to keep their husband’s engaged during pregnancy. Every and…
Fatherhood
I’ve had the pleasure to interact with men and fathers of all types. As the days, weeks, and months pass, I’m reminded of my childhood and chosen fatherhood. I’ve had conversations with men that want kids, have kids, don’t want kids, accidentally had kids. The conversations have been quite interesting. The stress of fatherhood is a hell of a walk. It’s funny to think about men and daughters and men and sons. I think about…
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