Westward Bound
I’m truly excited to announce that later this month, I will be carrying the Napier flag from southeastern Massachusetts to southwestern California. This move will allow me to pursue longstanding personal and professional goals, while maintaining my commitment to the team’s financial planning services. I will also be guiding a carefully vetted opportunity the firm has…
Damn this Thoughtful Gift!
Please allow me a minute while I climb atop my soapbox…. Wasn’t it wonderful when Malcolm Butler engaged his bionic eye to calibrate exactly where the pass was being thrown to make the interception that inevitably won Super Bowl XLIX for the Patriots? Or when Brad Marchand leveraged his nifty robot wrist extenders on his…
Slumdog Giftcard-ionaire
Surprisingly, there’s not a whole lot going on in Boston’s South End on weeknights. The evening walks are great and if you’re looking for a nice dinner out, you’re in luck. But in terms of weekday night activities, the landscape is barren, with one exception: Wednesday night trivia at Cleary’s in Back Bay. The venue…
TS Tied the Knot
The deed is done! After a roughly twenty-four-month long engagement, Khrista and I were married on October 6th in Santa Monica, California. Apart from just one cancelled flight from the east coast, all the events went better and more smoothly than we could have ever imagined. Allow me to share a few photos from the…
Middle School Sports Hero
Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! A common daydream of the not-so developed mind of a teenage boy is that of being the hero of a game. Walk-off home run, buzzer-beating 3-pointer, overtime goal – the list goes on and on. The play is made, the referee confirms the glorious moment, and you are hoisted on the backs…
Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving?
Taken from one of my favorite rom-coms, Jennifer Garner’s 13 Going on 30 – this title/mantra from a 13-year-old teenage girl has taken up far too much real estate in my head recently. Though I am not flirty nor unquestionably thriving, I am in fact thirty as of mid-June. And though my mom loves to…
My Wedding Draws Near: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The Good She still loves me: Despite a slow start out of the gate in regard to my (limited) wedding planning responsibilities, we are still on track to tie the knot over Columbus Day weekend in Santa Monica, California. As cheesy and cliché as it sounds, we are ready to drop everything, skip hand-in-hand to…
Sand Everywhere, Tan Nowhere
Years ago, I wrote a piece titled something along the lines of “The Golden Age of Entertainment.” The point to my long-winded story was that the members of my family were all in the perfect age range to enjoy the same shows, movies, humor, activities, etc. and that it was such a nice change. I’m…
Grass Ain’t Greener
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, ‘if I just had that _______, life would be so much better/easier/enjoyable/fulfilling?’ However, no matter the magnitude of desire & hope, it seems we are quickly let down with how the ________ affects our day-to-day. 2022 was the perfect example of these thoughts; I checked off a couple boxes…
The Art of the (Electronic) Deal
As a few of you have kindly pointed out over the past week, I’ve had a greenish tint to my already pale skin. I am on Day 5 of COVID quarantine and hating every second of it. Thankfully the symptoms have been rather mild, but it’s being locked down in this godforsaken apartment that is…