Author: Sam

Our Walkabout

Link to our other website cataloging our travels through Europe, Southeast Asia and around Australia during 2009 and 2010: Our Walkabout

On Hiatus

My wife and I are going to spend a little time away from the hustle and bustle and I’m thus going to have to put […]

Abalone Season Opening Day

Jerry and Paul took me out to one of their secret abalone spots north of Jenner yesterday for abalone season opening day.  Even though the […]

Dear A.I.G., I Quit!

The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward […]

How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill This one is a bit of a feelgood tale, the story of a high-flying advertising executive born […]

Escape

Escape, Carolyn Jessop I read Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven a few years ago and was absolutely dumbstruck by the existence and far-reaching […]

JPMorgan Earns $5B Derivatives Profit

By Matthew Leising and Elizabeth Hester JPMorgan Chase & Co. managed to generate $5 billion in profit during the worst year in Wall Street history […]

The Melting Pot

The Bodessis took us out to dinner on Saturday night to celebrate Mrs. V’s 30th; after our fondue experience on our recent trip to Banff we […]