I took our car to the dealer for some service. A shuttle driver for the dealer gave me a ride home so that I didn’t have to wait around. I chatted with him for a bit. He is one of eight children and is from El Salvador. His father left the family when he was
Category: Personal
The Power of Music
I stumbled upon the video above while surfing the Internet last night. It is The Sundays’ cover version of “Wild Horses.” I played it, and it instantly took me back 20 years to a May afternoon. I was in my apartment, about to finish my job and readying to start business school. There are a
A Morning Bike Ride
We are about to finish a two-week vacation on Cape Cod. One of my favorite things to do is to get up at dawn and go for a long bike ride. There’s something rejuvenating about biking in the coolness of a summer’s dawn, with only the sounds of awaking birds and the rhythmic whir of
Band of Brothers & July 4th
One of my favorite books is Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. He writes about a company of paratroopers during World War II, following them from D-Day to the end of the war. They land on Utah Beach in complete chaos, push through Europe, almost freeze that winter, help liberate Dachau, and take Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
Sen. Olympia Snowe’s grit and perserverance
Here’s a very inspiring article from Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. It appears in today’s New York Times: When I was growing up, I would never have guessed that I could become a United States senator. Both of my parents — my father a Greek immigrant, my mother the child of immigrants — died before I
Death of a Yale grad (and how time is precious)
I just heard about Marina Keegan, who last week graduated from Yale College and a few days later was killed in a car crash. One of Kepha’s investors told me about it and forwarded her last column in the school paper, published the night before her graduation. I re-print it below (it’s from the Yale