We have the original file somewhere since my son did all of the production: sound and editing! This is a promo video for the Valdez Fat Bike Bash. Rolling around in the snow is always a good time! Good times, good peeps!

Announcing a new pop up seeking eco friendly vendors!

Falls under the category of “Things the history books in Illinois don’t teach you about when you’re growing up”: Juneteenth is one of them.

It’s no wonder so many people dive into conspiracy theories and alternative truths when the very parent government we’re meant to trust doesn’t give us the full story. It’s an age old angry tale for another day. Right now we’re celebrating freedom!

Juneteenth is celebrated all around Austin, Texas pretty much from the beginning of June with preplanning parties and calendar invites starting in April and May.
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There are no negative vibes surrounding the celebrating of this heavy topic. It’s all about the joy of freedom and the vivaciousness of living life to the fullest.

You're a do it yourself-er. You've got your business going - or maybe you have that rockstar idea.
But where to start?
It is SO OVERWHELMING for most that popular accounting software programs that make the bold claim that it can do it all for you with automatic categorization, instant financial reports, and all you need to do is link your accounts! Blammo! Magic!
But anyone who has tried this knows this is the fastest route to mind numbing amounts of confusion. This mythological biggest ball of tangled twine tourist stop on the road of life is now your reality.
Well, I'm here to tell you there is hope and you CAN straighten out those books so that you will know:

• without a doubt what your balance is
• how to make projectinos
• how much monthly revenue you're bringing in
• what your owner's equity is
• if your assets are balanced with your liabilities
• what your liabilities are
• how to make your business grow or how to increase your personal savings!

Sign up for newsletters and training tools / or hire an accounting expert now for peace of mind and miles of smiles!

Essential skills like riding with one hand and getting out of the saddle are harder to start when you're an adult.

First of all, your center of gravity is completely different. A student can feel heavier or that it's farther to fall when you're taller as an adult. Developing the confidence to move through the fears and find a new sense of balance and fun takes time and practice is the key!

​See more about essential skills here in past posts and newsletters!

Many of my accounting and bookkeeping clients come to me because they've ignored their books for so long they just can't make heads or tails of it and the reports definitely aren't matching their checkbook.

Design Dog Tees initial set up was quick and clean. For me, it's such a pleasure to be able to bring someone peace of mind so they can continue doing A) What they love to do and B) What they're really good at!

Plus, Dogs!

Design Dog Tees does jobs for school fund raisers, events, families, and clubs. Like 4 Runners and Rock and Roll? Well - Design Dog has an Etsy account just for that too. Check out Design Dog Tees on Etsy.

Now, on a personal level, you will never meet a kinder human being than Joe Emerick. Joe used to ride BMX and last week when I was there I was happy to know he was doing the work for the BMX Round Up held annually here in Austin. Rad Tees for a Rad Event.

Now I know first hand this isn't how it's going to be with new clients. But keeping things simple is key. If you're having trouble with your software, ditch it. You can always come back to it later. Need to do monthly reconciliations? Use a spreadsheet - or worst case - use paper. Just make sure those bank accounts are balanced every month. 

​As my friend used to say, Done and Dusted.

Yep, it's a metaphor for life or whatever your might be working on right now.

Sometimes it's scary. And sometimes it's success!

“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”- Epictetus

​Why write? Why draw? Why yoga? I’m in the process of reinvention (again). I must not be the only one thinking about this though because both the January issue of Psychology Today and the March issue of Outside magazine are about change and reinvention. Change in the self, change in the global workplace and change in how we define ourselves is in the wind. This sort of thing used to be devastating for those in past generations who really bought into the idea of a single lasting career for the husband, or a single husband for a wife. And, for some, this was a reality. For others, who built their personal identity around this external thing called “career” or “husband”, it was crushing. 

I can’t romanticize that past too much, however, because as I get older and see how the 70’s and 80’s are romanticized now I can attest it was not ‘safer’ then to, for example, hitchhike around the country or for children to run free in the streets around the town. It wasn’t smaller then. It wasn’t simpler. People weren’t happier. There weren’t more fields of green (well, maybe there were more fields of green).