Earnest and Young

My dear readers, After my first entry, where I detailed a chronic inconsistency with journaling and resolutions, I bet you were all pretty surprised to see a Part Two. Shock the world, I guess. It took a little longer than I would have liked, but I’m cautiously optimistic that any of you were truly waiting on the edge of your seat for this to drop.  That being said, I did receive some pretty positive feedback after my introductory entry. One friend gushed, “I didn’t even know you could write, that’s great!” while another praised, “It was actually sort of funny, I was pretty surprised!” You know what they say, low expectations yield high results. If you’re like me, a human being who interacts with other human beings, you've likely noticed that every small-talk interaction starts out with a version of “How are you?” Hopefully some of you can relate. But I've recently come to realize that nearly every time I answer this, I include some variation of the phrase, “I’ve b...

Friends and family, Many folks say that Public Accountants make the best bloggers. To clarify, nobody has said that. Yet . But on the off-chance that this thing ever goes viral, I would like the *credit* for being the first to make such a declaration. And for everyone keeping track, please note that it took a mere 3 sentences for the first accounting pun to appear. For much of my life, I have tried to pick up journaling. At the start of each new year, while the rest of the world headed to the gym, I would be rolling up to Borders (R.I.P.) to buy a new notebook. I would get home and passionately start to fill up the pages, bragging to friends and family how I would have a treasure-trove of memories to look back on when I got old and turned 22. But like clockwork, after about a month, I would get busy, forget an entry, and ultimately toss my journal in a drawer somewhere. My aspiration to document the important moments was there, but my committment to keeping a journal was not. And now...