Liam and Daddy

Thanks for the pictures, Aunt Susan!  FWIW, you can also see these pictures at Flickr.

Liam wearing winter clothes

FYI, these pictures are also available on Flickr.

Liam, Uncle Mike, and my new lens – pictures from this weekend

FYI, these photos can also be seen on Flickr.  Sometimes I put in little captions and other things that don’t show up here.

Thanksgiving at Pismo 3

FYI, these can also be seen at Flickr.
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The Story of Thanksgiving

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The story of the first Thanksgiving
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Book Review: The Martha Rules

Subtitle: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as you Start, Build, or Manage a Business. Written and published in 2005 by Martha Stewart.

The narrative for this book starts while Martha Stewart is in prison. She talks about some of the very determined ladies she met who wanted to get out of prison and start their own businesses. While in the clink, Martha wrote some business training for them that turned into this book.

It’s interesting to read a business book written by a gracious, driven, vicious, visionary entrepreneur. Anyone who had model, stock broker, caterer, CEO, and felon on her resume makes for a good read.

I found the business principles rather obvious and unsurprising, but no less solid for all that. She makes liberal use of examples from her constellation of business friends and associates. Case studies are always interesting to me. And, of course, she frequently referred to lessons from her own business experience.

In the end, any of us can only speak from our own experience. And that’s what I found so limiting about reading Martha’s rules for business. They work very well if you’re building a company like Martha has built. But like every product Martha produces that has her name on it, ultimately it’s just Martha and some very nice window dressing.

Pictures of Liam – bathtime and tool time

Liam loves bathtime!

This kid really loves bath time! I’d love taking baths if I had cool rubber duckies like that, too.

Daddy shows Liam how to use a hammer
“Liam, this is a man-toy. You’ll grow up to love it. Maybe we’ll get you a little one some time,” daddy says by way of gender-typing his progeny.