I meet for an hour each Wednesday evening with a dozen or so primarily retired men who all attended an Emmaus walk at some point in their lives. The walk to Emmaus is an experience of Christian spiritual renewal and formation that begins with a three-day short course in Christianity. My Emmaus …
Authenticity
During the Texas freeze last month, close friends lost their electricity, so we invited them to stay in our home. We were fortunate to have both power and water throughout that extremely cold week. We have known this couple for over twenty years, and they live nearby. We traveled internationally …
Vaccination
February 3rd and 25th will always be special days in my life. These are the days my wife and I received our first and second Covid-19 vaccine injections. We signed up to work two 4-hour shifts at a vaccination center and if there were enough vaccines available, we would be given our injections at …
Mutual Fund Investing
My favorite MBA class was a finance elective on investments. We studied equities, fixed income, and other types of financial investments. I learned terms like alpha (๐ โ a performance measure of excess returns over a benchmark index), beta (๐ โ a measure of systematic risk of a security or portfolio …