Ripe Tomato Award for Philanthropy Through Fashion
A confession: I don’t know much about fashion. When I look at Jeff Bezo’s pants, I think, “Hmmm, a little tight, but no big deal.” As a freelancer who stays at home with his daughters, my flashy duds tend to gather dust, unless I’m eating Chocolate Taxidermied Deer or cursing aliens for withholding their cancer-curing [...]
Office Politics Vocabulary: Ass-Kissinger
Ass-Kissinger: A person of middle-level management who seeks power by pandering to both upper management and lower rank employees, typically through passive aggressive methods, often playing one side against the other in isolated meetings. Named in honor of Henry Kissinger, who infamously played both sides of the 1968 election to gain a position in the [...]
Three Decades of Me: It doesn't get more solipsistic than this!
Today’s my 30th birthday, which is nice because I’ve been feeling 40 lately, so turning another year older actually helped me feel younger. While fabulous babysitting grandparents cared for the girls, my wife and I commiserated with ghosts at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo., hiked for miles and miles in Rocky Mountain National [...]
If my life were a musical…
…and I weren’t already married with two children, and I were a lot younger, and I had a trust fund, and I spent less time on the internet, I’m fairly certain my life would look exactly like this.
