ThirdVoice

Dear Facebook Friend: Now that we are officially linked on Facebook, let me tell you my policy regarding what this means and what it does not. Before I begin, let me encourage you to not take anything I am about to say personally. It is not a comment about you. It is information about me. [...]

I stopped by Babies’R Us last night to pick up a few items for my  daughter. While checking out the Assistant Manager named Darrin asks me if I want to join their Frequent Buyers Club and qualify for discounts. As there was no cost to join and it only took a minute, I said yes. [...]

The other day one of clients who is a senior in high school, looked me dead in the eye and said, “Hey, Risk equals Reward!” It stopped me dead in my tracks. Me: “Where did you come up with that one?” Him: “My economics teacher.” Me: “Well your economics teacher is a Stupid F#CK” ! [...]

Jake’s tears welled up in his eyes about 11:30pm last night. He was a fifteen year old boy at a camp in Pennsylvania who took me up on the offer to continue the discussion started earlier that day in a Boys To Mensch program I had run with the entire group that afternoon. Of the [...]

There is an unspoken agreement in our home that I do the dishes. It works out this way about 90% of the time. It isn’t because we have some liberated, modern family where gender roles are rebelled against and we have some intention to model some different way of life for our daughter. In fact, [...]

Four Guys Had Lunch Today I had lunch today with three 18 year old graduating high school seniors. It has been a  long time in coming – 4 years to be exact. A little background: I met them when they were in 8th grade. I’d been contracted by a local Middle School to run groups [...]

On October 1st I’ll have lived in my current place 20 years. In January it will be 22 years I’ve called San Francisco home. Over the years many trends have come and gone. I’ve watched the dot.com boom then implode. I’ve watched the 49ers be a dynasty, then become a laughingstock. I watched Barry Bonds [...]

There is a core philosophical dilemma that today’s parents face, and it is in serious ways, the most significant dilemma they may ever be faced with resolving. One side of the dilemma is the need our kids have for intellectual training and development, which includes the use of technology and the critical role that having [...]