Monday morning, I read a very sad story in the Wall Street Journal. Buzz Aldrin’s children are asking a court to make them the former astronaut’s guardian; their father is fighting it https://t.co/nHoyHlKT7B — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 25, 2018 Aldrin, age 88, has lived an incredible life. He flew 66 combat missions in […]
Nearly three years ago, I wrote a longform piece at LinkedIn, posing the question: “What if the advice to ‘do what you love’ has created a well of dissatisfaction among American workers?” What prompted my introspection was a Gallup study of workforce engagement which suggested that less than one-third of the U.S. workforce reported being […]
In the beginning, social media was a good thing. Sites like Facebook allowed netizens to commune with friends and family, absent the bonds of time and space. People could share anecdotes, photos and memories with one another, in some ways recreating the utility of a family or class reunion without the logistical headaches or potential […]
It’s no secret that corporate travel ain’t what it used to be. From the ever-shrinking seats to the increasing number of cancellations and delays, airline travel is not the glamorous adventure the movies of our youth made it out to be, and too many miles away from home and family are, as it turns out, […]
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine My first trip abroad was more than 20 years ago now; at the tender age of 15, my folks allowed me (with no small amount of concern from my mother, who was convinced something bad was sure […]
A while back, a friend asked me to recommend some great podcasts. Since I’m an old broadcaster at heart, he theorized, I’d surely have some solid subscriptions to suggest. Sound theory, but I listen to a surprisingly small number of podcasts. They can be summarized this way: one about wrestling (college and freestyle, not WWE), […]
You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good-bye. Teach your children well, Their father’s hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picks, the one you’ll know by. Don’t you ever […]
One of the most frustrating paradoxes in the modern age is the obesity epidemic: We know more about food, nutrition, physical activity and human health than at any previous point in recorded history, and more people are obese – even morbidly obese – than at any previous point in recorded history. The internet is awash […]
Confession: house hunting is one of my guilty pleasures. The Stunning Mrs. Vance and I did a fair bit of our courtship going house hunting, actually. We were both renters in excellent situations subletting space from homeowners we absolutely loved, but I was coming up on the end of my lease and thought it was […]
The old saying was “if it bleeds, it leads,” and that truism holds in the age of digital and social media. Consider the past weekend’s “March for Life” as a relevant example: according to the New York Times, mass shootings make up only 1% of gun-related homicide deaths, but draw round-the-clock coverage due to the shocking, […]
