Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week Today is Father's Day in Australia... And whenever this day comes around, I think about the moment my life changed forever. 24 September 2018. I'd had a busy day at work. Got home. Went to unlock the front door... And for some fuckin reason, I just couldn't get the key to work. 😂 Nadine heard me struggling from inside. She got out of bed to come help me... And her water broke. Seven...
4 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week This week nearly fuckin cooked me. If you've been following along, you'll know I'm currently working on my first bridge project in 16 years as a Surveyor. And this week we hit a MASSIVE milestone. We installed the first girders that will eventually carry the new road over the railway line. Pretty fuckin cool. But behind the photos and videos of massive pieces of concrete being lifted...
18 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week This week, Cassius finished his very first season of soccer... With the Mighty Under 5 RAVENS. Tiny boots. Chaos everywhere. 😂 Kids running in every direction. Sometimes toward the ball... Sometimes definitely NOT toward the ball. But fuck, I loved it... coaching team Because I had the privilege of being not only his coach, but a few more kids, Three years ago, I did the same thing...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week This week was probably one of the most stressful weeks of my professional career. I've been a surveyor for 16 years. I've worked on roads. Structures. Airports. Bus lanes. But I'd never built a bridge before... Until now. And this week came my first girder installation... girder install From conversations with other surveyors and colleagues in my network, I knew this wasn't a simple...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week This week reminded me that the greatest investment you can make isn't with your money. It's with your time. Work has been demanding lately, My construction project has ramped TF up. Nadine's workload has been crazy too. By the end of the day, we're both tired. The easy option would've been to crash on the couch, scroll our phones, and promise ourselves we'd do better tomorrow....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week Eight years ago this week, I boarded a one-way flight halfway around the world... Two days earlier, I'd seen Carter on the ultrasound. Nadine was 29 weeks pregnant with our first son... And there I was... Walking onto a fuckn plane, leaving everything we'd ever known behind. on the flight If I'm honest... I was scared as hell. Before that day in 2018, I'd never left my hometown. I'd...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week Today I took the boys to the park. No running for me just yet... but that didn't matter! Because today wasn't about movement. It was about presence. No phone. No Air Pods. No distractions. Just me... and them. Watching my boys laugh. Climb. Imagine. Play. Their little world... My whole world. Standing there, I realised something. This is partly a reminder to myself... But maybe you...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week This week we explored the winter lights display in town. The boys loved it. The colours. The music. The atmosphere. Last year I was on the ice rink looking like a baby giraffe trying to learn how to walk for the first time 😅 This year? With my groin injury... There was absolutely no chance of me stepping onto the ice. So instead, we walked. We explored. And I spent a little time...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Let me know what you think of this newsletter please? News of the Week Three weeks ago I tore my groin. And if you've been following along, you'll know the injury didn't just take away my ability to run, train, or play soccer. It rocked my identity. The active dad. The runner. The soccer player. The guy who moves. Suddenly... I couldn't. But this week something changed... 1st gym session Hope returned... Not because I was magically healed. Not because...
2 months ago • 2 min read