When I arrived in Vienna, Austria, the other day, I had a horrible surprise at the airport: My suitcase, which had started the journey with two wheels, now had only one, courtesy of the fine baggage handlers at British Airways. Luckily, the airline rep inside Customs told me they’d replace it—that is, let me spend …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Anti-Dad Blogger Bias in Asia
According to Ad Age, Coca-Cola has decided to find “digital influencers” in South Korea to help sell their carbonated beverages. Digital influencer, I should point out, means in this case–Mommy blogger. Now I don’t know what kind of Mommy bloggers they have over in South Korea, but here in the USA, I’d say that the …
Why You’re Still Married, Or Not
The Daily Beast has posted a roundup of cockamamie-yet-entirely-believable studies that purport to tell us whether we’re predisposed to divorce. Risk factors include some obvious things (marriage before age 18; couples where one person wants kids much more than the other) and some not so obvious but plausible ones (women in the military; travel + …
The Oracle of Fatherhood
If you ever doubt the power of what we do as dads, consider this: when Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, was recently asked about the best advice he ever got, he answered with a little homage to his father’s gift to him: The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on …