jeff shuck

Matthew showing his fearlessness this morning on the monkey bars…

I am writing from Tennessee — after six months of fighting, my little niece died this week. I am down here for the service and to generally trying to be useful. The situation is heartbreaking. As a parent I cannot imagine what my sister and brother-in-law are feeling.
I thought I would post my sister’s last [...]

Well, I supposed to be compiling my Christmas card list — my wife has had hers done for two weeks — and of course I started procrastinating by bumming around the web, which actually came full circle as I looked up some high school friends I’ve been out of touch with for way too [...]

I haven’t posted in a long while, not because nothing has been happening or that I have nothing to say, but mainly because I am either too boring to describe what is happening or to lazy to say it.
But I have just changed the template of the blog for the heck of it, and hopefully [...]

My friends Dan and Karina had their baby on Tuesday — a boy named Hudson! Hooray! Best wishes to all three of them.
You can read more about them here.
Jeff

There are many things I want to write, and more things I want to say, and I’m not sure how to begin, or where to end, or what to do in the middle.
I came home tonight to the incredible sight of the sun meeting the water outside of my front door. Everything in my little [...]

It has been a month or so since I last posted. I’d love to say that I’ve been working on the Great American Novel, which I have not been doing, but I have been working on the Great American Company, so I think that counts for something. Work has been so filled with content — [...]

Warren J. Shuck, my grandfather, died in early February at age 97. He was an incredible man in the way that phrase should be used — he was honest, caring, intelligent. He had character.
I had the huge honor of speaking at his funeral.

Gramps, I found the note that you wrote to us. You had placed [...]

In early 1999, shortly after the death of my mother, I was asked to write an article on leadership and change for “The Magazine of Sigma Chi.” In my grief it basically became a eulogy for my mom.
Today the grief is gone, although the pain remains — and the thoughts below still ring true for [...]