I am in the middle of a business trip to Japan. This is my 19th time in Tokyo. I’m a little bit homesick. —– I took the following photo on the subway last night. A young woman was wearing a pair of shoes that looked a lot like the shoes that Dorothy wore in “The […]
The Elephant In The Living Room
When my wife and I started househunting in 1992, we worked with a real estate agent. He took us to a home where there were holes in the walls and a dent in the oven door (the oven door was so badly dented that it would not close). There were doors missing. Every time we […]
Comfortable In My Own Skin
About 15 years ago, I had a physician’s appointment. My physician was looking at my back, and she said “I don’t like the looks of this”. I asked her what she meant, and she told me that she saw a spot on my skin that looked abnormal. She referred me to a dermatologist. I went […]
Impatience & Impatiens
I’m impatient. I don’t like standing in long lines. I stare at the microwave, wondering why it takes so long to nuke my food. As Tom Petty once sang, “the waiting is the hardest part”. I don’t like to wait. I am impatient. What I am most impatient about is not knowing. —– Sometimes I […]
Living Below Our Means
I read an article recently written by an author who described himself as broke. He has written several books that have sold well. He has a decent income. But he has nothing to show for it. I read another article written by a woman who makes less than the national average salary, yet she has […]
The Hero’s Journey
My wife share a book with me this week, titled “The Invisible Thread”. It’s a true story about a young businesswoman who passes a panhandling boy on the streets of New York City. They strike up a lifelong relationship that helps both of them. They boy endures the most difficult upbringing. He is at times […]
The Worst Financial Move I Ever Made
I swear that everything in this article is completely true, except for a couple of things that I made up. Years ago, my wife and I used to vacation on tropical beaches. Our attendants would feed us grapes, and wave palm fronds over us to create breezes. Then one day, we looked at each other, […]
Darwin Park
There is an expression “the joy is in the journey, not the destination”. But I think about the destination a lot. Yogi Berra once said “if you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” I recently found a park near where I live. It is a destination. I take […]
I’m Voting
Tomorrow is the primary election day in the state of Pennsylvania. A few facts about our election system: There are currently 319 million people living in the United States. As of 2012 (the last presidential election), 235 million people were eligible to vote (they were over the age of 18, and were citizens of the […]
Drafting NFL Players Blindfolded
On April 28, 2016, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will step to the microphone and state “with the first pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Los Angeles Rams select….” More people will watch that announcement than will watch the World Series, the NBA Championship or the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. In other words, more people […]
