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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Comments Section
Have you ever taken the time to read an article online, and then read the comments section? Have you ever been bothered with the nature of online comments? The Guardian newspaper in England published an article about their results with the comments section attached to their online articles. There have been 70 million comments attached […]
Dear Basketball Gods
April 3, 2015: Thank you for letting Heather and I go to Houston to follow the improbable Villanova NCAA tournament run. It has been a lot of fun so far. A few random thoughts about the Final Four experience….. Watching an NCAA Final Four is a weird experience. A Final Four means that four different […]
Siri, Take Me To Work!
In the last 12 hours, I have filled my car with gas, driven my daughter to a sports clinic, and driven to work. There isn’t anything remarkable about any of that, except that all of that will probably change in the next 10 years. Two technology changes are coming to the automotive world: electric cars […]
