by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
“What does your calendar look like for February 21st through the 25th?” Barb has just asked me a loaded question. If I say I’m free, then there’s no excuse for me not wanting to do whatever she’s asking. “Why do you ask? “Just answer my question.” I look at the...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
“I’ll tell you a story you’ll never forget…. a story about you…. and your cigarette” It’s 2008 and my daughter Allison, all of six years old, giggles uncontrollably as my dad sings that line as sort of a sea-shanty tune in ¾ time. I remember it well. He sang the...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s early Friday evening on July 13, 2012, and I’m at an airport bar at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Outspoken Vice President Joe Biden has publicly called out LaGuardia as “third world.” He’s not wrong. This place is a dated, crowded, dirty, depressing dump of...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s the Fall of 2019 and I’m on one last road trip before the end of the year. As I’m standing in the TSA line at BNA, a thought crosses my mind. What will I do when I stop traveling and lose all my precious status? As of now, I’m TSA Pre-Check along with CLEAR. I...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s 10:30 PM on Saturday night, November 11, 1990. We’ve just returned home from an evening with my wife’s family. Things aren’t going well between us. We’ve been drifting apart and the stress of two small kids, low income, terrible job as a surgical assistant in...
by Mack Munro | | Growth, Story
It’s March 1985 and I’m a newly married 20-year-old. My new wife and I were married in a lavish ceremony in Santa Ana, California. I had just flown home from my overseas duty station in Australia a few weeks before. We are excited to begin our new life together...
