The My Day In Pictures articles are to keep friends and family updated on what is going on with my life. It was instituted at the request and for the benefit of one of my favorite people in the world, one of my aunts who is a retired telephone operator and lives a few hours away from me.
Though I very rarely talk about my personal life on the blog due to privacy concerns, I will say that for years, I have attended a flexibly-scheduled weekly family dinner that rotates among the members’ households with the host cooking for the guests. This is an extension of the tradition that began during my childhood…
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In the most recent Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter, Warren Buffett remarked that the three best investments he ever made included his home in Omaha (the other two were wedding rings). He conceded that he would have had more money if he had instead rented and invested the cash, but the utility of the home far outweighed the opportunity cost. Now that I am in my late twenties, I understand what he meant.
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After meeting my newborn nephew for the first time, Aaron and I went to grab lunch at Houston’s steakhouse on the Country Club Plaza. We had planned on going to Ruth’s Chris but everyone else was too exhausted so just he and I headed over to the shopping district because we wanted to look at…
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We finished our business on the East Coast, though you only saw the personal parts of the trip, and flew back to Kansas City this afternoon. I’m finally starting to feel better. Most of the way home, I read magazines such as Architectural Digest and the Harvard Business Review. I also listened to my iPad…
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After breakfast with Laura this morning, Aaron and I took a detour and ended up swinging by Rider University and went into the bookstore to pick up some paper, pens, highlighters, etc. We then picked my mom up at the hotel, and drove 2.5 hours through the mountains to visit Ashly and Ian. It was…
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Had I been running this blog years ago, you would have seen Laura on a consistent basis. She was the Assistant Dean of Student Life and adviser to the Student Government Association back when we were in college. The lessons I learned from Laura were about people and human relationships. I am a better man…
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Yesterday, we attended the Diana Crane Scholarship Benefit Concert in Princeton, New Jersey, spoke at the event, and had our foundation make a gift to celebrate the 26 years of service of one of our favorite professors at Westminster, the music school of Rider University. Diana was both Aaron and my academic adviser throughout much…
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At least that is my personal opinion. Finally! At this point, I had taken a bite of (and spit out) more cupcakes than you can imagine. Some of these legendary bakeries made products that tasted liked Crisco or raw butter. But we heard about a new little cupcake shop that had opened in Princeton, New…
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Tonight, Aaron and I attended a concert designed to benefit a scholarship setup in honor of one of our favorite professors, Diana Crane, now that she has decided to retire. We agreed to speak at the event and had the Kennon & Green Foundation make a donation to the fund. I was grateful that I…
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We were supposed to have breakfast with Jimmy this morning but we ran late because I was still really, really under the weather and trying to drag myself out of bed. You may remember him; he works for a major opera company in the United States and was a Fulbright scholar with whom we attended…
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