When my daughter, Emma, was a little more than a year old, my wife, Becky, found a toddler music class for her. It was for ages one to three, and kids sang and played instruments in the class. It sounded great. Of course, with Becky’s work schedule, she couldn’t takeContinue Reading
Last night at the grocery store, the lady at the register said to me, “Hello, handsome, would you like paper or plastic?” I smiled, said “paper,” and as she was ringing me up, I thought to myself things such as, “Dan, you handsome bastard, you still have it. Aging likeContinue Reading
FUNNY STORY (and last Buffett post, I promise): Back in the summer of 2000, I was working at a newspaper when I saw a job ad for an associate editor at a boating magazine. I really wanted to get into magazines, and a boating magazine seemed REALLY cool. The problemContinue Reading
The reporting will focus almost entirely on margaritas and cheeseburgers and Hawaiian shirts. He made a lot of fans and a whole lot of money marketing that stuff. But to me that’s all BS. I’ve always maintained that if you look deeper than all the schtick, to some of hisContinue Reading
I need a lawyer. I’m looking for legal advice for an upsetting situation I’m dealing with. My daughter has been leaving packages of dessert food out with signs stating it’s a $10 fine if I have one. She leaves this food out in the open instead of putting it awayContinue Reading
That. Was. Awesome. I was going to say it’s the most fun I’ve had at a race I wasn’t in, but given I didn’t have to suffer at all, safe to say it’s the most fun I’ve had at a race… period. While these folks have done races before, thisContinue Reading
When you see people persevere when things get uncomfortable and difficult, it’s a beautiful thing. That’s why I love trail and ultra running. It often pushes people to the brink; to points where they’re uncomfortable, where they’re unfamiliar; to where the voices in their heads say “This hurts. This isContinue Reading