Journal entry: May 4, 1981 (age 12): Birthday Monday is the worst day of the week to have a birthday. You have to go to school, and everybody is in a bad mood. But today got better as it went on. When I got home [more...]
May 152013
May 152013
Journal entry: May 30, 1987 (age 18): Car Wash As my senior year at Seton Catholic Central High School comes to a close, the milestone events are starting to fly by. The Class of 1987’s senior prom, senior trip to the Magic Valley amusement park, [more...]
May 072013
Lost Journal entry: June 3, 2008 (age 39) A few weeks ago, I wrote a “Lost Journal” column about my 7-year-old nephew Tommy’s “Enemies List.” It explained that the only name on the list was Tony Kornheiser, the well-known sports commentator and co-host of Monday [more...]
May 062013
Journal entry: May 8, 2008 (age 39): Enemies list Hell hath no fury like a 7-year-old scorned. Recently, my brother Dan told me that his son, Tommy, has a “Friends List.” This closely held sheet of paper lists the names of his second-grade classmates, baseball [more...]
Apr 172013
Journal entry: February 12, 2008 (age 38): LASIK surgery Is there any surgical procedure that sounds, just in terms of the basic description, like a good idea? “First, we’re going to cut open your” is not the beginning of a sound-sounding plan. “Then we’re going [more...]
Mar 312013
Journal entry: September 28, 2006 (age 37) Some professional performers are called “triple threats,” because they are accomplished actors, singers and dancers. I’m more like a non-threatening bunt, because I can do an impression of King Friday from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. With singing auditions coming [more...]
Mar 252013
Journal entry: July 2, 2001 (age 32) Ah, the dotcom bubble. Over the past year, it’s introduced me to the highest salary I’ve ever had, the first stock options I’ve ever been offered, and the slow poisoning of my soul by a very corporate corporation. [more...]
Mar 172013
Journal entry: May 7, 1976 (age 7) – Early Planning for a Super Career Adults seem to think that career planning is on the mind of the average grade-schooler. We are regularly asked, by relatives and strangers alike, what we want to be when we grow [more...]
Mar 122013
Journal entry: March 2, 2002 (age 32) — St. Patrick’s Month This week a friend from college called me, and at some point in the conversation he asked what I would be up to this weekend. “Oh,” I replied, “I’ll be going to the St. [more...]
Mar 052013
Journal entry: October 15, 1994 (age 25) “Oh, I’m so glad you boys are both home this weekend. You can help your father clean out the eaves!” My brother, Dan, and I nodded at our mother, and then gave each other a look that said, [more...]