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My dad was a miserable failure. Really the worst kind of failure there is. He tried, he failed, he gave up. He lost in everything. HIs first marriage blew up in his face when she cheated on him and the cops had to be called when he was doing something horribly embarrassing to himself.  I […]

It was torture. I went to see my daughter sing yesterday. If a psychic said to me: 20 years from now you are going to drive 70 miles to see a bunch of little girls sing Christmas Carols for two hours, I would’ve fired you as my psychic. Anyway. I cried. They are almost grown […]

Daniel was tending sheep in Sudan when a bomb blew both his arms off. When he heard the bombs in the distance he had hidden behind a tree but wrapped his arms around the tree. A bomb went off near the tree and his body was safe. But the arms he had wrapped around the […]

The government has rules. Schools have rules. Society has rules. Parents and then family have rules. Relationships have rules. I tried to follow all the rules. I was a good boy. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track. The rule book is too big. And then I got the phone calls. Why didn’t you follow that […]

At first I lied to him. The taxi driver asked what they all do, “How’s your day”. I gave the usual response. But then I realized I was about to enter into a long-term relationship with this man. We were going to travel 84 blocks together. It’s bad to begin a relationship with a lie. […]

She said, I am an introvert but had to develop tricks to fake being an extravert because of where I worked. I said, Do you think everyone in LA is an extravert? She said, I don’t know. Maybe they are all faking. We were at a party. I had been sleeping but a friend called […]

I once went to a Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. I met a guy who told me how in 1976 he bought 200 shares. “After a year the stock had doubled so I decided to take some profits off the table. I sold 100 shares and started a restaurant and ran that for the next 30 […]