View this online β’ Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! 2025 Issue #30 π€’ Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where I am thrilled that my original painting "The Prepper" (seen above) has flown away to a perfect new home! Now, on to an uncomfortable question... Are you sabotaging your own success and happiness? We recently exhibited at the Midsummer Festival of the Arts in Sheboygan. I'm no stranger to this sort of thing, between participating in art fairs and the gift shows we...
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View this online β’ Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! 2025 Issue #29 π¦ Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where today I am exhibiting and live painting at the Midsummer Festival of the Arts from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center downtown! If you're in the area, come say hi Kim and I were on our way to San Diego. For reasons known only to Delta, our seats got reassigned, and we were split up. Considering that part of the reason for our trip was to...
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View this article online β’ Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! 2025 Issue #28 ποΈ Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where next weekend I will be exhibiting and live painting at the Midsummer Festival of the Arts on July 19-20 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center downtown! Iβll be one of 100 juried artists selling work all weekend long. There will be live music, food trucks, hands-on art activities, and so much more. Itβs free, fun for all ages, and we'll have some...
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2025 Issue #27 𧨠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...
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2025 Issue #24 π 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. π¦πβοΈπ I...
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2025 Issue #25 π² 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...
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2025 Issue #24 βοΈ 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...
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2025 Issue #23 πͺ 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. Itβs lionized as the recipe for success; to quit your job, cash in your life savings, and bet the farm. Itβs also terrible advice. Our movies, history books, and culture are filled with adventurous...
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2025 Issue #22 βοΈπ₯ 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,...
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