lost in manhattan
Today I was walking back to my hotel in NYC, thinking of new product ideas, when I realized I had been walking for longer than expected. I checked my phone and saw I had overshot my hotel by 4-5 blocks. So I turned around. At some point I checked my …
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1 hour later, 3 years older
Last night I was speaking with the CEO of a successful charter school network that is doing great work and he told me that he and his wife recently went out to dinner to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, and that an hour into dinner they realized that it was …
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please don’t do anything else
wife: would you please move the clothes from the wash to the dryer? me: yes, of course, no problem wife: and please don’t do anything else me: hmmm. do you want me to turn on the dryer? wife: (sigh)… besides turning on the dryer
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PJs or no PJs?
I got in the car today to go to the bank –keys in ignition– and then I realized that I was in my pajamas. My next thought was, do I really need to get dressed to go to the bank? Then I asked myself whether I needed to get dressed …
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The 5-Second Rule
Boooo: Dr. Weil on whether the “Five-Second Rule” is really ok The 5-second rule is great, especially if what fell on the floor is really tasty.
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$200 later, not much to show for it
Fran, my mother-in-law, went to the store to get ingredients for turkey chili and quinoa mango salad. $200 later she came back home without the turkey for the turkey chili, and without the mango for the quinoa mango salad. (btw, I can relate – that’s one of the reasons I …
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Decked out for the wedding
Fran and Rich, my in-laws, got showered, decked out with suit and tie and dress and everything, and left for a wedding. The only problem was that the wedding was not that day. It was the following day. It turns out that they were a day ahead of schedule, like …
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Chipiso
Of course I do this the day Rosa had come to clean AND we had just dropped off the dog at Nancy & Roland’s to stay there for a few days (otherwise she would have enjoyed cleaning the floor) AND Allison had just given me some of her guacamole AND …
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Quick wipe off of the evidence
I came out of the shower this morning and the living room floor was very shiny. The wife had spilled her tea all over the floor, but she had promptly cleaned it, so I missed the photo shoot opportunity, sorry.
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