No matter the result tomorrow, keep your humanity. How we talk to each other matters. What we say matters. It’s hard to hate up close. If you wouldn’t say it while looking someone in the eye, then don’t say it…

     I’ll admit I’m a curmudgeon when it comes to over used sayings with under used thought. Nothing solicits a sharp eye roll more than the adage “character is who you are when no one’s watching. That’s stupid. And more importantly…

BY PETER KAPLE

What can a 308’ Icebreaker and Antarctica teach you about life?  

Short Answer - A Lot 

Lesson from the Ice - Master Your Tools  

My icebreaker and my home for the last 7 years has been the…

HAPPINESS LIVES WITH YOUR REFERENCE POINT

The more I try to avoid the hard stuff the harder everything seems to be…. I’ll admit Conflict, hard work, eating half way decent, there not my first choice. I know this though, the…

You ever see a nap needing, hungry 4 year old? As they tear the baseboards from the living room and watch the world burn, they have no idea what they want. They just know they’re miserable. How did so many…

BY PETER KAPLE

What can a 240’ Icebreaker and Antarctica teach you about life?  

Short Answer - A Lot 

Lesson from the Ice: Be thankful and enjoy what you have. 

I spent my first two years in Antarctica working on…

QUARANTINE TUTORIAL: 30 DAYS WITH A WIFE OF 10 YEARS, HAS BEEN ANYTHING BUT FAMILIAR 

Familiarity breeds contempt. It’s a simple truth that lately I’ve had my nose rubbed in. No, more than rubbed, more like waterboarded by. My nose…

I’ve never said “I shouldn’t have to” and been happy at the end of that statement.  Our internal huff, and the never ending narrative that “I’m always the one that has to say sorry.”  “I’m always the one left to…

There are two rivers I drink from.  One is Fear and the other is Love… Literally everything I do comes down to these two emotions.  They drive all my actions. Where I spend my money, my time, the things I…

Stop saying “I love you,” Go home, you’re drunk. You don’t even know what that means.    I worked for a legendary coach and in a team meeting he told us this and I quote. “I don’t love any of you,…

Do you play forgiveness charades?  Us adults may lack childlike imagination but we play plenty of make believe.  None more than when we say sorry, and let someone be sorry. To ask forgiveness is to believe you’re wrong, or a…

If you’re life was on netflix would we watch? If you were scrolling over the new releases would you click on your story?   In the first 10 minutes of a film, a problem is introduced. Imagine the opening scene, the…