jeff shuck

The post-game show is over and tomorrow is garbage day. I go downstairs, pull on my coat, and open the garage door.
Fine snow is falling on what is already about two-thirds of a foot. For a minute I can’t remember if I need to drive somewhere tomorrow or not. No, I’m working from home. I bet [...]

Well, I haven’t written in several weeks, not because I haven’t had anything to say, but because there’s been so much happening between work, life, and the holidays that time has gotten the better of me.
Several weeks ago I completed the San Diego Breast Cancer 3-Day, which was every bit as re-energizing and inspirational as [...]

Wicked
We went to see Wicked yesterday and I was pretty blown away by how great it is. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a musical that I thought was this good — probably years ago, when I saw Rent. I ordered the sheet music and I’m excited to fiddle around with it. The Chicago leads — Kristy [...]

Incredible, incredible morning on the lake today. The wind was from the North at about 15 knots. North wind can be tricky because of the chop it generates (although around here because of the angle of our beach, a Northwest wind is worse), and this morning there were 2-3 foot waves breaking which made launching [...]

I’m on a flight from Dallas to Chicago — the flight was delayed, then we got re-routed, then the pilot announced that the air conditioning doesn’t work, then subsequently mentioned that the air is out because of an air purifier malfunction, which is also forcing us to fly 10,000 feet lower than normal so that [...]

Sitting here kind of puttering around. A friend took me golfing today, so I had to come in on a Friday night and catch up on some work and delete — I mean, read — all the emails that came in during the day. There were a lot of them today; everyone trying to get [...]

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 [...]

I am here working late on a variety of things that seemed incredibly important when I started them — and that now cannot hold my attention. I have found myself drifting to various things to distract me: Running to get a diet Coke; leafing through a magazine at my giant desk; looking at IM for [...]

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 [...]

I drive through snow-covered streets to the lake. The air is empty and quiet, like Catholic Mass on a Wednesday morning.
I walk to the beach. Under my feet ice and snow make the sound of crumpling newspaper. As I approach, the call of thunder builds. Twenty-five knot winds from the Northeast push the water into [...]