There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>