My Kid Is Bouncing Off The Wall as Spiderman (Literally) My wife is spoiling our kids! Mike’s Blog 213 Seriously, during my trip to China, I picked up a Taobao delivery that was a real spiderman suit – from head to toe! Miles kept asking in Wechat messages while I was on the road if I had picked up the …
My Daddy Saturday Night
My Normal Saturday night Just a quick post – this is my life now. Saturday night on the sofa w/ the wife and kids watching Spiderman. My daughter was so scared of Dr Octopus – and my wife was able to snap this photo of her coming to daddy when Dr Octopus was running wild in the movie. I also …
My Son Is a Budding Artist
My son is an artist (family of artists) Uncle Bill has really been enjoying the photos lately in various social media channels (I’m not as active there – but my wife has figured out Facebook now that she’s outside of China, heh…) Here’s a photo he drew over the weekend. I have to admit – it was his idea to …
Happy Father’s Day, Receiving & Giving The Best
Happy Fathers Day – Kids Getting Older It is five years now of being a father, and maybe the first year I can really feel the benefits of it. My son Miles made this amazing piece of art for me: Now as a father of a 5 and 3 year old – I’m both a giver and a receiver on …
Priorities: Back In Time For Son’s Birthday
Back in Thailand for My Son’s Birthday Number 5 Oh, to be an “American dad” in Asia. Family in Thailand, doing work and business development in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Does seem like the right position overall. Come to China for focused (and intense) business meetings that have been planned well in advanced from Thailand. Fly in, meeting, meeting, …
Grabbing a Few Little Physical Memories
Grabbing a Few Little Physical Memories Walking on the beach we just want to grab something. Kids want to “take this, keep that”. Humans, why do we want to horde and grab things? I did grab some things while walking along the beach as well. My kids asked me why, and I plan to throw the shell back before I …
Took Kids To The Beach (Amazing Vibes)
Wow, the feeling you get when your kids put their water in the ocean. I have taken them to the beach before (I remember when I visited my family in Florida we all got in the water) – but maybe they are old enough to appreciate it now. The ocean, something about the sheer size of the ocean and the …
Reminder Of Family Bonding, In Southeast Asia
The Family Bonding In Southeast Asia Definitely more “cowboys and indians” style here in Southeast Asia compared to the last few years in Shenzhen. Actually it is mind-blowing to think how fast Shenzhen, China developed from seeing things like this photo featured today into a police state where nothing like this seems even possible anymore. I took the photo in …
Launching Something Special on My Birthday
A Birthday – so launching a Bootcamp in Thailand Ya, here is a vlog. Well – we are doing a video update, can we call it that. Don’t plan to get back to the grind of regular video blogs – this is a special one for a couple special reasons. vlog 211 It is my birthday! Not sure about you, …
Turn My Kids into Youtubers?
Make My Kids a Youtube Channel? As a dad, and content creator, and former vlogger (I may return, but in a new shape and form), I do like the concept of documenting my kids growing up. Today’s day and age you can do so much more than simply marking their height on a door frame You can record the kids …
American Breakfast on Saturdays
Saturday American Breakfast My wife is amazing. Life is amazing. Saturday morning is again my favorite time of the week – pancakes, and today even bacon. It is these small things that really make life worth living. Since about 2014 she has made us pancakes for breakfast on Saturday morning (my cheat day).
Quick Roland Encounter In Taipei
Random Encounters in Taiwan Even though I am on the download lately in social media (no vlogs, no social media updates) – tags and others sharing on social gets on people’s radars. While I’m down here (or up here technically) in Taipei, Taiwan – Roland randomly saw I was coming and reached out. We were lucky enough to grab dinner …
Happy Valentine’s Day From Thailand
Happy Valentine’s Day From Thailand Just a quick note on the blog… 😉 Kids are great. They really enjoyed Valentine’s day at school – sharing candy and making various arts and crafts. Makes me remember my school days – some memory still stuck in my head about being so stressed about who to give a secret valentine note to (or …
Happy Chinese New Year (1st one in Thailand)
Happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Pig Is Here! Hope everyone has an amazing new year – Chinese new year. So we are in early Feb in the Solar calendar and now we are at a new year in the Lunar calendar (Chinese). In Asia / in China / in my life – that means we can finally …
Will My Son Remember This?
Weekend is starting – and Miles was so excited to get things kicked off he was playing with Atom Man (Is that the toy’s name, I’m a disconnected parent now) and asked me to take a photo (well actually a video, but I’m not video blogging at the moment). So I snapped a couple photos and showed him Is he …