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There are a ton of incredible books to read in 2021. 2020 changed my reading habits considerably.

The pademic hasn’t been great for so many people’s health and fitness.

For the last year, we haven’t been able to travel as a family the way we loved to before the pandemic.

Vaccination rates in much of the country are rising, the summer is here, and it finally feels like the pandemic is loosening it’s grip on our lives.

When we moved to our new house a little over two months ago, I knew a little bit about the neighborhood, but it’s only through two months of running the sidewalks and main streets of the town and surrounding ones that I really have come to feel like I know

Where did the last year go?

I couldn’t believe how different our identical twin boys are sometimes.

After a few years living on Wordpress, it’s time to take some more control over my blog platform.

Much of India is currently suffering through an intense uptick in COVID cases and hospitalizations right now.

Surviving the pandemic with three kids under five and two fairly demanding jobs wasn’t enough for us.

We’ve spent just about the last 400 days with our kids non-stop, with maybe two total nights away from them since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

Throughout COVID, so many things have moved to more advanced technology.

The promise of remote work and electronic communication isn’t new, but it certainly ramped up and grew to so many new industries during the pandemic.

It’s been a year and I can no longer keep track of the days.

Last weekend, over two feet of snow fell in Northern NJ, blanketing the region for the first time this year.

Let’s face it, COVID sucks.

Back in October, which in the year 2020 feels like a year ago, we got a bit crazy for Prime Day.

‘Tis the season for stuff.

Bigger than recycling, or an electric car, or minimizing impact through reuse, reducing meat consumption is the biggest thing an individual can do to reduce their impact on the environment and aid sustainability.

Thanks for nothing.

Small business Saturday is not a new concept this year, but in a time when so many small business are either disappearing or at a huge risk due to COVID, it feels especially important to find ways to give them our help where we can.

I love our kids’ school.

Every year we hold Thanksgiving at our house for both my family and my wife’s.

Coming back from parental leave and getting up to speed with a new team is harder than I expected thanks to remote work.

Before 2020, I loved working from home.

Every single year since the first Motorola Droid came out in 2007, I’ve bought a new phone.

This week marks the final week of my parental leave from work.

While I’m on parental leave, I’ve begun an experiment to see how often I can use my iPad as my primary computer.

I ordered my wife a Peloton Bike for her birthday and I’ve been on it pretty much every day since.

This year has involved a bit more running than I originally expected.

On Saturday September 12, after five and a half hours of running through the trails and roads of Sussex County Fairgrounds, the same place I first got a medal for one of my homebrewed beers, I officially became an ultramarathoner, completing my first ever…

For a family that thrives on vacations and travel around the world, one of the worst parts of the pandemic in 2020 is not being able to go anywhere safely.

Four years ago, when our twins were born, I was able to take the full six weeks of parental leave offered by my company to get to bond with them and share a great part of their childhood together.

This summer, during COVID distancing, I decided to run 1000 km as part of the Great Virtual Run Across Tennessee.

Four years may not seem like a long time, in parenting years, it’s a lifetime.

Last week, the Northeast got knocked out by Tropical Storm Isaias and we were left without power for five days and internet for six.

I was originally supposed to run my first ever 50K in April with the New Jersey Trail Series.

Recently, my company announced that employees like myself who can work from home, should continue to do so until at least Jan 2021.

COVID and the ensuing lockdown has seen me spending more time in nature, especially around our house, than in a long time.

Bringing a baby into the world during a global pandemic and lockdown certainly wasn’t part of the plan.

After three months locked in the house with three feral children who were perfectly described as “drunken penguins”, we’ve been anxious to start getting out of the house again.

Along Spain’s southern coast, the perfect stopping point on a drive between Marbella and Granada, is Nerja.

Sending kids back to daycare in the midst of a pandemic isn’t a decision I take lightly.

2020 had to be the longest year in history.

Back at the beginning of March, my wife and I took the Amtrak down to D.C. - and what would be one of the last regular Acela trains back up to Newark, just before the Corona virus started moving into the mainstream.

Austin has somehow become like a third home to us over the last few years.

By no means am I bored at home during the COVID pandemic lockdown like many others seem to be.

The hospital where we welcomed our third child began a shift to a “baby friendly” hospital in the time between when we had the twins and our third.

To say my family has the travel bug might qualify as the understatement of the century.

While everyone else was staying home, keeping as far away from others as possible, and staying away from hospitals to prevent the spread of COVID-19, my wife and I had to head into the hospital to bring our third son into the world in the middle of the pa…