Bob Mahr

I remember my physics teacher in high school, Mr. Held, always saying, “May your KE= your PE.” This was his version of “May the Force be with you.” At the time, I thought it was just a nerdy thing to say. However, there is wisdom in those words. Energy is everywhere and comes in many […]

I was walking the dog late one night thinking about the events of the day. Overall, it was a sad day. I learned that a college classmate and fraternity brother passed away, too young from Parkinson Disease, the day got deep into some drama that I’d rather not explain, and I felt discouraged at work.

Although it did not become my 2023 ‘One Word’, there is so much the word Farmer stands for in my life that I felt it deserved a blog. I grew up with tremendous respect for the vocation of the farmer. I had the privilege in one of my job roles to interact with farmers on

My one-word tradition for 2023 took me on a challenging voyage. I spent weeks reflecting on which word reveals where I am in my life’s journey and what I expect to be a key concept for growing and moving forward this upcoming year. A history of my one-words over the years; 2017 – Discipline, 2018

  For me, feeling “Christmassy” is a combination of happiness, surprise, awe, and love. It is an emotion, but it is not a state of being. I need to remember that point. There have been years when a few weeks before Christmas, despite being in the season of Advent, I lacked the Christmas Spirit, and

Consider we are traveling around the world from New York City back to New York City, with a compass pointing due east. If we are off by just one degree, then we end up landing in Montreal Canada instead. An uncalibrated compass has our arrival greeting party in the wrong city, as well as the

Give me IRL every time over URL. IRL is an acronym for ‘In Real Life’ where URL represents the Internet where addresses are called URLs (Uniform Resource Locators – which I had to look up for this blog). When a pandemic suspends face to face engagements, an abundance of on-line interactions and connections backfill the

Once my wife went to the store to get eggs and came home with lemonade, and no eggs. When I asked how that happened, she replied that she was distracted by the lemonade. According to her it was a bit more complicated, but I prefer the simpleness of that statement. These distractions seem to be

This past weekend, I listened to speeches from the Best Man and Maid of Honor at the wedding of my daughter and new son-in-law. Both speeches highlighted how the groom and bride became a better person based on the presence of the other in their life. I can absolutely attest to this phenomenon as I

The passing of time and how events unfold have been on my mind recently. I guess that happens when one is preparing to walk their daughter down the aisle. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow all converge into one stream of thought. Simultaneously, I see her through all the ages growing up, the young adult she is