Day 105

 Suspense, like the suspense you feel just before the roller coaster takes that first plunge, can be fun.
Suspense with a disappointing ending, well, as Jon Stewart would say, “Eh, not so much.”
Take, for example, “The Sopranos.”  Everyone was on the edge of their seats for the entire final episode but when the screen went black, as [...]

Day 104

Coming out of a meeting this morning, I got back to my desk to find a voicemail from Miranda.  She was screaming with such excitement that at first I was convinced a Terradactyl had swooped into our living room and abducted Anna.
 
After listening to the message again (actually, it took me four tries to finally understand [...]

Day 103

Miranda and I decided to play hooky today and spend some Q.T., sans Anna.  After dropping Anna off at a friend’s house, Miranda and I decided to stay cool by catching a movie.
Since “Live Free or Die Hard” had yet to hit the theaters and Miranda simply refused to sit “Pirates,” we decided on the [...]

Day 102

I had just taken a seat at my desk, logged on to ESPN.com, and enjoyed but one sip of my coffee when my phone rang.  It seemed a bit early for a business-related call and I was right.  Miranda was on the line, a sense of panic easily detectible in her voice.
“What’s going on,” I [...]

Day 101

Miranda was at work late tonight and that led to two very important discovery:
1. Anna either has multiple personalities or, as I suspect to actually be the case, she prefers the company of mommy to daddy.
2. I am the king of making women who reside at Apartment de Mencher cry!
As usual, when I got home [...]

Day 100

First and foremost, Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.  I hope each and every one of you is enjoying the day!
I wanted to address the fact that my first Father’s Day as a dad falls on the 100th day of my fatherhood, but I’ll actually save that for tomorrow’s Week in Review.  [...]

Day 99

Being a day behind in my reading of the NY Times, I flipped to the Op-Ed section of yesterday’s paper to find an interesting — and incredibly disturbing — article by David Brooks (Note: A paid subscription is required to read this article), in which he discusses the incredible lengths people are going to to have [...]

Day 98

Before this morning, there used to be two things that people could say that would so infuriate me because I knew the statements to be so false that I would literally walk out of the room. 
The first is: “Howard Stern was responsible for Sanjaya’s improbable run during Season 6 of American Idol.” 
The second is: “I [...]

Day 97

If you ask anyone of my friends, they will tell you that I love to make fun of stuff that others consider important to them.  Whether it’s religion, politics, science, whatever, in my mind, it’s open game. 
I think my friends would also agree that I do a very good job of not just dishing [...]

Day 96

As I perused the various sports columns this morning, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of articles were focused on Tiger Woods’ pending fatherhood. 
Take, for example, Joe Saraceno’s article in The USA Today, in which he hypothesizes that perhaps fatherhood can make Tiger a better golfer.  If he can handle the rough at Oakmont, [...]