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ARTICLES AND PERSONAL REFLECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, AND ON BLOGS
The Daily Smile Day 5: Columbo
There have been many game changers in the police procedural genre. I remember when NYPD Blue debuted and it was so "edgy," what with the foul language and nudity that was so racy for network TV. Law and Order and its ripped from the headlines take on plot lines...
The Daily Smile Day 4: The Love Boat
I have a confession to make, I've never been on a cruise. When I lived in Florida, my mother and father took my older brother and sister on a cruise on a ship called The Flavia. Jimmy and I didn't care because we were afraid of anything that went on the open seas....
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 question." That's a lie, there is....
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 the pet parent of...
Introducing, The Daily Smile
So, I really feel as if this picture summarizes it all. Brotherhood. Love. The carefree days of our youth. We remain close as adults and, even though we don’t see each other as much as we’d like, we can easily pick up where we left off.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
The set designer expertly recreated what I remember from my childhood and I found myself getting emotional during the film. I watched Mr. Rogers Neighborhood religiously as a kid in the 1970s. It got me thinking of how much simpler of a time it was then the time in which our kids are living.
A Return to Innocence
One summer, about thirteen years ago, we stopped off somewhere outside of Providence, RI for a bite to eat. The five of us were all kind of bummed since our annual summer vacation to Chatham, MA had come to an end and it was back to reality—a six hour drive back to...
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
This was an aha moment for me because I can now go back to my clients and tell them that they are not only making the handling of certain tasks more efficient for their users, but they are also shaving time off of someone else being hungry.