2025 Issue #27 🧨 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we celebrated the birthday of America in all the usual ways, but also with brats. Here in America, amidst the parades and fireworks and meat on the grill, it's easy to overlook an important fact: July 4th used to be a blank square on the calendar. On many calendars throughout the world, it still is. But almost 250 years ago, a ragtag bunch of rebels stood up to the world power and premier fighting force of its time. It...
13 days ago • 3 min read
2025 Issue #24 🐝 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we kicked off our four-part series of Escape Adulthood LIVE this week, giving you the 10-5-1 technique to help you have your #BestSummerEver! (Oh, and we also began taking pre-orders for my first-ever children's book, The Penguin Who Flew! Don't miss the P.S. this week for a VERY timely announcement...) Be positive! Be optimistic! Everything is unicorns and rainbows and sunshine and lollipops, yadda, yadda, yadda. 🦄🌈☀️🍭 I...
20 days ago • 5 min read
2025 Issue #25 🚲 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the release of Penguins Can't Fly this month, this is the third in a series of lessons we can learn from some historical rulebreakers, Wilbur and Orville Wright. What are you waiting for? It seems we're always waiting for something before we can begin. We are waiting until we get the degree. We are waiting until the kids leave the nest or until we retire. We are waiting until we...
27 days ago • 5 min read
2025 Issue #24 ⛈️ Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we've definitely been better. This past week was...not great. It was already slated to be a busy week during a very busy month. Then, in 72 hours, we went from a simple wellness visit to the emergency room to a training session at Milwaukee Children's Hospital to learn how to check blood sugar and inject insulin into our kid. We interrupt your regularly scheduled life to bring you this important message: your son has Type...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
2025 Issue #23 🪁 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the release of Penguins Can't Fly this month, this is the second in a series of lessons we can learn from some historical rulebreakers, Wilbur and Orville Wright. Go big or go home. It’s lionized as the recipe for success; to quit your job, cash in your life savings, and bet the farm. It’s also terrible advice. Our movies, history books, and culture are filled with adventurous...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
2025 Issue #22 ✈️🥛 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the release of Penguins Can't Fly this month, this is the first in a series of lessons we can learn from some historical rulebreakers, Wilbur and Orville Wright. Is it possible that one lesson we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is to be wary of experts? I doubt it; it's a lesson humans seemed doomed to repeat. If the Wright Brothers had listened to experts over a century ago,...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
2025 Issue #21 🥛 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where our team had a meeting this week to plan for the 10th anniversary of Penguins Can't Fly and the release of my first-ever children's book, The Penguin Who Flew. Exciting things are on the horizon! But today, I would like to tell you the story of the greatest milkshake ever made. Although it happened in Wisconsin, the land of dairy cows, it could have been anywhere and it could have been concocted by anyone. It was made in...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
2025 Issue #20 🪨 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where Kim and I are returning from a trip to San Diego that combined a fun speaking engagement with a celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary. I know, hard to believe considering we are both 39! 😂 I recently spent time tracing the footsteps of Orville and Wilbur Wright. I had two speaking engagements in North Carolina, less than a week apart. Rather than fly back and forth, Kim and I decided to have me stay down there. She...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Special Issue 🍋 Happy Humpday, Reader! Consider this your official invitation to Wondernite! 🎟️ Get all dressed up and join us in Sheboygan for an unforgettable night. Indulge in a gourmet plated dinner, decadent desserts, and a generous dose of wonder as we roll out the red carpet for a one-of-a-kind experience. This exclusive event features an inspiring presentation as I premiere never-before-seen artwork and the captivating stories behind them. But that’s not all… Be among the first in the...
2 months ago • 1 min read