• Build a life that you don’t need to escape from!

    I just read a chapter from Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday and the last line hit me hard.  Maybe it will mean something to one of you as well.  Below are some excerpts from this chapter (my summary with much fluff removed). You can’t flee despair. You can’t escape, with your body, problems that exist…

  • Places I Want to Eat at in Kansas City

    Well, since I told you that I want to be a foodie, I thought maybe I should start a list of the places that I’d like to visit in the near future.  This list should contain the best of Kansas City and/or the most interesting.  Basically, these should be the places that you must try…

  • JULIAN

    Yesterday, I enjoyed a nice evening at Julian in Brookside.  I had heard a little about this place, but not enough to have too many pre-conceived notions about what to expect.  What I did know is that the chef is a bit of a celebrity in Kansas City.  This is James Beard award winning chef Celina…

  • Avenues Bistro – Leawood

    Avenues has not been on my list of places in KC that I want to try, but not because I haven’t heard good things. Actually I have been there several times already, but it was never an ideal situation. Previously I had been there for a business lunch or two and found the menu to…

  • Our First Cookout Party

    This weekend, we had a couple of family members in from out of town. We decided to have a get together with everyone in my wife’s family, which is a large family. It was decided that we would have a cookout and our house was offered as the venue.  In the end, it worked out…

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