Chronology

Our Walkabout

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

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 […]

Sick

Sick, Jonathan Cohn I was browsing around The Book Passage in Corte Madera with a Christmas gift voucher from my mum when I saw this […]

Banff and Lake Louise

We spent the last week in Banff in Alberta, Canada to celebrate Greg’s 60th birthday as well as Mrs. V’s 30th.  We split our time […]

Gang Leader For A Day

Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh Whilst studying for his PhD. in sociology at the University of Chicago, Sudhir Venkateshchose to take a slightly […]