Life

A Theme for 2021 — and Beyond

We’ve all heard the familiar refrains about 2020 — ”worst year ever”, “2020 sucks”, and “this year can’t be over soon enough!” I get it. This past year, especially the last 10 months, have been challenging on many levels for everyone. Certainly, the year has been more…

Life As Your Kid’s Chauffeur

Here it is 12:16 AM Sunday night (technically Monday morning) and I’m just getting my weekly Sunday night prep done. Usually I’m ahead of the curve a bit more. But when my wife shot off for a weekend in Seattle with one of her girlfriends, it was me and my daughters for the…

Revisiting My 2009 Goals and Predictions

Before we get too far in to the new decade, I want to circle back on a couple posts I boldly put out there in early 2009.

The first one touted the fact that I had decided to just pick One Resolution for 2009 and that was to lower my…

Give Me My Health Records — Free of Charge!

This isn’t what I’d call the most significant personal horror story related to health care. In fact, in the scheme of such stories, what I had happen this past Friday is pretty tame. However, it does highlight in a small way how screwed up and non…

Back From the East Coast Swing

Next time you want to really mess with your kids on a vacation, take them to another time zone for like a week (or 10 days is even better). We just got back from an East Coast swing through Mass., NY and CT (and R.I. but that was basically 2 hours on 95 so not sure it really…

Food Inc. Movie Review

Upton Sinclair must be turning over in his grave.

College Sports Feeling the Recession

A rather depressing story in today’s NY Times about cuts spreading rapidly across the college sports landscape. Seems that the recession’s squeeze is finally making its way to the athletic departments. As expected the sports getting the knife at schools are what…

Is Geithner Serious About a VC Beat Down?

Ok, I am supposed to be on Spring Break vacation with my family. Acutally, I am on Spring Break with my family, but since it’s been downpouring rain all day and my wife and daughter’s have parked themselves on the couch in front of the movie “Mama Mia”, I…

An Idea for Sunday Morning Politico Shows

Don’t ask me how or why, but for some reason I ended up at the broadcast network end of the TV dial this morning. Toggling between David Gregory and George Stephanopoulos (whom my wife correctly asked “what did he do again that warrants him moderating one…

Look at Youth Sports Differently

Here we are in the midst of Little League baseball season so it must be about time for more outcry from psychologists, parents and journalists about how our star craved culture is ruining our kids’ lives by driving the little ones too hard in youth sports.