Let's be honest. Most of us won't have the opportunity, much less the money, to attend this evening's Super Bowl. And we weren't invited to the A-list parties and didn't encounter Bruce Springsteen or even Paris Hilton on the sidewalk. ...more

February 1, 2009

These are distasteful times for anyone who shares the responsibility for reconciling the bottom line. With the well-established exception of folks who ship their wares through the Strait of Hormuz, budgets are in the, well, tank. The proverbial wolf, brandishing a gas can and a bill for corn-diverting ethanol subsidies, bangs at every door. ...more

July 18, 2008

but I've learned that I don't love hot weather that lasts way past summer with no end in sight. I moved from Washington State in June and I'm not used to summer being 12 months long. ...more

January 11, 2008