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February 08, 2010 | Family Life
It's five o'clock on a Monday afternoon, and I'm gathering steam for the next phase of the day. I give some brief thought to the past couple of hours since I left my office to pick up my kids at their school. Driving through the West Valley, I raced several phone-holding-and-talking mothers in their SUVs, a few gardeners whose equipment perilously hung from the back of their pickups, and the occasional motley crew of high-schoolers zigzagging across the road at speeds far too excessive to be intended to bring them home to do homework or study for tests.
I arrived at my children's school to pull up in the line of cars parked around the yard waiting to load their respective dependents and whisk them...
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January 23, 2010 | Family Life
It's evening time and I'm sitting in our kitchen, having dinner and chatting with Beautiful Eema and our kids, when the conversation turns to the topic of politics. For a change, it's not me bringing it up. This time, it's the Good Boy. “Is Obama going to take away all our money?” he asks.
Good question, I think to myself, realizing that an answer is required, not a vague, dismissive one. It was a few months after the presidential election and the children were well aware of the issues involved, at least the important ones. From the serious faces of the TV pundits and most other adults, they surmised the potentially deep effect the elections could have on our family and on the rest of...
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January 09, 2010 | Just My Stuff
In the past few weeks, since I got a Kindle, I've started reading novels again. It's been good. Reading books is a pleasant pastime for me, and part of my enjoyment is simply the idea of grabbing any chunk of time and turning it into downtime.
You see, I'm a busy man. Why, I don't know. In theory, I work fewer than 40 hours a week. I like to think of myself as being "20% retired." After so many years of working 14-hour days and building a successful company, I've gradually cut back on the time I spend at the office and I spend more time with my family.
I've seen several people my age suffer from life-threatening conditions, and others have died at a very...
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