I joined the Navy Reserve and will be out on military leave until 2023. I should be able to turn on the store in September 2022 if everything goes smoothly. Wish me luck!!
I completed my Wood Badge training course WB-16-84-22 this quarter and I’m very proud of that. Wood Badge is the highest level of adult leadership training within the Scout BSA organization. I had wanted to do this training before I went into the military and waited approximately two years to be able to take this […]
As some of you may not know, I am an adult scout leader in my son’s pack and my son is a devoted cub scout. He’s really into it. I think the best thing about the Scouts BSA is that it instills values in these young people whenever I have to point my son in […]
This little cat is the newest member of the household. I typically run 4 miles every other day and I just so happen, one morning, to come across this poor kitten starving, full fleas if I had let him be he may have ended up dead so I decided to bring it home. The idea […]
I recently read the book by McConaughey, Greenlights. This is what he calls an approach book, a playbook on how to live a life. In the simplest form a greenlight is a positive event in your life or an opportunity and although not everything is a greenlight our lives, these yellow and red lights have […]
Accountability, Transparency, and Trust. If you know Harmshield, our history, and the principles on which our great company was built, then you know these three words intimately. They permeate throughout everything we do and say. If you were to ask me to sum it all up into one word, it would be Integrity. I would […]
As we continue to grind through the year I wanted to share with anyone reading this that I am applying for a position in the Navy Reserve as an IT Professional. This is a journey I’ve been undertaking throughout most of the year and as I draw closer to the end of this process I […]
What a year! Home schooling, working from home, the great recession, and the dang virus. Seriously, what’s next. Whether you’re feeling like you are living in a country that is divided or just frustrated that you can’t be locking arms with your teammates at work, know that we are living in the best country in […]
At the end of the last quarter the COVID-19 pandemic began. It’s incredible how things have changed in a short period of time. Luckily our family has not been affected very much but it is sad to see the economic impact of this pandemic. To me the reason is clear, we have been in the […]