February 2011

Music Snob

27 February 2011

The past several weeks our son has been obsessed with classical music. I suspect it has something to do with the music instruction at his new school. It doesn’t come from us. Our consumption of classical music is close to zero. My wife currently has Rihanna and Katy Perry on heavy rotation in her car. [...]

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Seven Squared

9 February 2011

Time to turn the calendar once again! And since The Economist recently declared that life begins at 46, things can only keep getting better, right?

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Save the World

5 February 2011

Thirty years ago, I entered college with a mission: I was going to Save the World! I was fresh from a summer in northeastern Brazil as an AFS student and had experienced what the difference between rich and poor really is. Coming from the richest and most powerful country on earth, I was going to [...]

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