Random thoughts on a Monday night... MERRY BIRTHDAY HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Every holiday season, I struggle a bit over how to explain Christmas to the Peanut. Generally speaking, I am wholly unqualified to have this conversation with my daughter. Being somewhat...

As I look around me, I can't help but get the feeling that America seems to be an angry place these days. We're angry that a shrinking portion of the population controls a growing portion of the money. We're angry...

The following text missives from my cell phone are all about to get purged so, as usual, I thought I'd jot them down here for posterity. Names and telephone numbers have been withheld to protect the (not-so) innocent. "The best...

I have repeatedly refused to chaperone the Peanut’s field trips, even when they were on days I wasn’t particularly busy at work and could easily have done so. The thought of riding in an old school bus with a bunch...

Lately I've been inundated with e-mails from friends, readers, news outlets, and PR agencies imploring me to write more frequently on this site. I've always tended to squirm a little whenever this blog gets any sort of attention. It's sort...

Dear Andy, It's 7:30 in the morning and I'm staring out the window of a hotel room in Stamford, Connecticut. As I gaze out across the Long Island Sound, I can't help but be struck by how beautifully clear and...

Once again, almost two months have passed and I've completely forgotten that I even have a blog. Mea culpa. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said, "summer has set in with its usual severity." So far, Summer 2011 has been going...

One of my favorite bars in New York is a secret. It has no telephone number. No windows. No signage. And the address on the front door is conveniently wrong. The bar's owner just wanted to open a tiny, intimate...

Wow, it's been more than 3 months since I've posted here. I have to admit that I've thought about just shutting down this site. Like everything else in my life right now, I've had mixed emotions about the whole thing....

Put enough ketchup on it and a kid will eat almost anything. No matter how much you speak to your kids, children learn more from what you are rather than what you tell them. Baby poop defies all laws of...