by Michael Carlon | Aug 19, 2010 | Self Awareness
Prior to this week I was on the road for nine days; all for one project. This of course means I have a lot of writing to do. Many people I know who do what I do for a living dread the report writing process, with good reason. We have to take multiple hours of...
by Michael Carlon | Jun 7, 2010 | Self Awareness
I must admit, when I was stretching this morning at home I was a bit nervous. After all, I was about to partake in my first race since 1992 when I stopped running the Waveny Park concert series. I was filled with self-doubt, which is a runner’s worst enemy. Once I got...
by Michael Carlon | Jun 2, 2010 | Self Awareness
Maria Fauci was my grandmother and one of the strongest women this world has ever known but she was not strong enough to beat cancer. She died just shy of Mother’s day in 1992 and just a few weeks before my high school graduation. Randy Cappiello was probably the...
by Michael Carlon | Apr 30, 2010 | Self Awareness
Serving – Not Sex. Sorry to excite anyone. ____ I remember as a kid my mother would always volunteer my brother Jimmy and I for various activities. We did everything from painting a rectory’s basement to cleaning a convent. In retrospect, “volunteers” was the...
by Michael Carlon | Apr 13, 2010 | Self Awareness
My mother is Italian and my father is Irish, which of course makes me Catholic. In many ways I am an exception to the rule; many in my generation do not practice the religion in which they were raised. While that may have been true for me during my college years, over...
by Michael Carlon | Apr 10, 2010 | Self Awareness
I am writing this while on vacation with the family in Ft. Lauderdale. As always, our vacation started off with a little drama. Pre 9/11, we traveled to St. Lucia and forgot a birth certificate; luckily we were able to find a sympathetic ticket agent who let us...
