Today, I’m posting a free excerpt from our latest book, The Entrepreneurial Parent: Run Your Business, Raise Your Family, Keep Your Sanity! It’s available at Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Introduction It was a miserably hot and sticky July afternoon. Earlier that day, we had discovered that our house, a triplex located in a […]
Combining careers and parenthood is challenging; combining running a business and parenthood is downright nuts. Guess which I did? Yeah, the nutty option. For those of you who don’t know the backstory: My business and life partner Terry and I managed to take a company — Scribendi.com — from basement startup to successful acquisition, while […]
Economists would have you believe that they can tell when an economy is hurting by looking at important indicators like unemployment, inflation and GDP. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need all of that. All you have to use is my patented Creative Excuses Coefficient Meter (TM). When I’m not writing this column, […]
You have just spilled your espresso all over your new white jeans. Time to text “@#$%^! my life” to your friends? No. Someone dented your car while you were at the grocery store. Should you vent on Twitter? No. The bank froze your credit card temporarily because it deemed your last purchase suspicious. Post […]