When I was a young child, I’d often fantasize that my parents were not really Asian immigrants who busted their asses to provide an idyllic upbringing for me and my younger brother. Instead, I had visions that I was simply...

Random thoughts on a rainy Wednesday NYC night... DO REAL MEN DO YOGA? Internet, I have a confession. I am now a person who does yoga. Yes. I am a Yogi. Me. It all started out innocently. I just wanted...

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing in the world would be cooler than being a professional sportswriter. See, as a young boy, I was an extremely shy kid and more than a little introverted. More often than not,...

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...