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The Daily Smile Day 3: What’s Old is New Again

I became the father of triplets at the ripe of age of 27. When you have triplets, you realize that you’ve been lied to your entire life. I’m sure that, at some point in your life, you were told, “There’s no such thing as a stupid...

The Daily Smile Day 2: Pippilino

We are dog people. There it is, I said it. Despite the fact that our father always proclaimed, “I don’t like dogs, but dogs like me,” all of the Carlon siblings are dog people. Even my older brother Greg, who fought hard against getting a dog, is now...

Introducing, The Daily Smile

In general, I consider myself a happy person. For this reason, as a kid, I was considered “easy,” especially compared to my twin brother who, and I mean this lovingly, could be a bit moody at times. For that reason, if I was ever out of sorts or not...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

In order to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, the school system in my town was closed as of the final bell last Thursday. As such, Friday began what my kids are referring to as the great confinement of 2020. We’ve been pretty strict about limiting their social...

Humility ain’t all it’s cracked up to be

Today I ran a 5K and crushed the goal I had set for myself. I wanted to run it in under 27:30 and finished at 26:16. It is by far the best I’ve done in a race since I was 18 and over a minute and a half better than my last 5K a few weeks ago. I don’t mean to boast...

An Aha Moment

Two weeks ago I was interviewing people for a client who has developed a voice activated personal assistant. It was a big project; 100 interviewers split between two interviewers across two weeks. On the second to last day, I thought I had heard everything I was ever...