The Best Phase of Child Rearing so Far

I have enjoyed every phase of raising our children. I still remember Susie and I eating and sleeping in shifts during our first few days at home with Kimberley. I got immense pleasure in seeing Alex take the field in his first soccer game, or watching Christopher ride his bike solo the first time.
All of [...]

On Staying Calm

I spent thispast weekend in New York with my son. We were celebrating his 21st birthday. I flew in from Indy and be flew from DC. The weekend didn’t start very well. Alex went to the wrong airport so he missed his flight. He got on another only to have the plane return to Dulles [...]

Why are We Afraid of Risk

One of the biggest impediments to forward progress is fear of risk. We continually overestimate the risk of change while underestimating the risk of the status quo. Every so often, someone manages to make the rounds on television or talk radio from pointing out this strange non-symmetric way that we deal with risk. The reality [...]

What Do You Really Do?

We know what we do for a living. Most of us have our 30 second elevator speech and our 25, 50, and 100 word descriptions of our businesses. But what do we really do? Why do you do what you describe in your elevator speech?
My friend Rhoda Israelov, who is now a ghost blogger, once [...]

Reuniting with the Past

Over two consecutive weekends I attended my wife’s 30 year high school reunion and my 25 year college reunion. These are interesting events. First, there is little worse than being the spouse at a 30 year reunion. I was lucky enough to know about a dozen of my wife’s classmates or spouses (the ones she [...]