him on the plane was unjustified. It was really a lot of fun traveling as a family and of course I’ve got photographs to prove it.
Maggie and I are both getting more and more involved in the search to find effective treatment and a cure for autism. I was told by a researcher that the number of reported cases keeps growing and a wide range of potential causation factors are being investigated including environmental toxins such as mercury contained in air pollution, pesticides and vaccines. The cause of autism remains a baffling mystery.
One spring afternoon I left work early to pick Caroline up from school. After I gave her a big kiss she asked me, “Daddy can I have an Apple?” My response seemed logical, “Sure, wait till we get home and you can have all the apples you want.” “No Daddy, not that kind of Apple, I want an Apple computer, a Macintosh.” I almost hit a parked car.
Apparently one of the kids at her school has an Apple computer. That makes sense since I think her friend’s dad works for Apple. I told Caroline I had a surprise for her at home, but before she got too excited I had to tell her it wasn’t a computer. Once we got home I told her to sit in the kitchen and have an apple while I got her surprise. I then went to the desk in our bedroom and pulled out my Charles Schwab statements to show her the Apple stock she owns. What followed was a simple lesson on the stock market, stock ownership and investing. From that day forward, Caroline makes it a habit to check the shareprice of Apple at least once a week. To make the story complete, Caroline got her Apple computer for her ninth birthday and her dad just loves her Apple story. (It would make a great Apple commercial)
My running has escalated and I ran my first race, not a 10k, but the famous Bay to Breakers.(12k) The race starts a few blocks from the Embarcadero on San Francisco Bay and meanders west through the city to the ocean. What an unbelievable experience. There were 100,000 participants and people were dressed in the wildest costumes imaginable including all sorts of strung together insects, naked or partially naked exhibitionists and probably 500 costumed Elvis impersonators. It’s pretty much a big moving party.
Time has become the limiting resource for Maggie and me. We need more and because we do scheduling is critical. Caroline seems to have something going on every day after school and on weekends and we’re always taking or picking up Ben from school or therapy. The reality is that Maggie works harder than I do.
Speaking of work, our percentage of hits and home runs at Rogers Schmidt is running at about 40% which is extremely high for venture capital firms. Fortunately pulling the plug financially or watching an unsuccessful company fail is tempered by the reality in the Valley that failure often produces some of the biggest successes.
Tess, your image pops up in my head often. Sometimes I’ll be at a ballgame or a restaurant and see a woman whose blonde hair looks like you from behind.When that happens, I always wait intently for her to turn around. If only life was that simple.
Dear Tess,
Twenty years ago today we attended a landmark rock concert in Anaheim featuring two relatively new bands, Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin.
So much has happened in the world, the United States and our own lives since that day. Yet, throughout those past twenty years the image of you briefly turning around twice at that the end of the concert remains a treasured memory in my life. Time has passed but your vivid image fueled through my eyes, processed in my head and captured in my heart is as powerful as it was on August 9, 1969.
Instead of looking back one year I now have the luxury of looking back over the last twenty. Maggie has been the most important part of those years. She has been my rock, my light and often my conscience. She has tolerated me when I couldn’t tolerate myselfand she believed in me when I lost my way. I loved her
Maggie and I are both getting more and more involved in the search to find effective treatment and a cure for autism. I was told by a researcher that the number of reported cases keeps growing and a wide range of potential causation factors are being investigated including environmental toxins such as mercury contained in air pollution, pesticides and vaccines. The cause of autism remains a baffling mystery.
One spring afternoon I left work early to pick Caroline up from school. After I gave her a big kiss she asked me, “Daddy can I have an Apple?” My response seemed logical, “Sure, wait till we get home and you can have all the apples you want.” “No Daddy, not that kind of Apple, I want an Apple computer, a Macintosh.” I almost hit a parked car.
Apparently one of the kids at her school has an Apple computer. That makes sense since I think her friend’s dad works for Apple. I told Caroline I had a surprise for her at home, but before she got too excited I had to tell her it wasn’t a computer. Once we got home I told her to sit in the kitchen and have an apple while I got her surprise. I then went to the desk in our bedroom and pulled out my Charles Schwab statements to show her the Apple stock she owns. What followed was a simple lesson on the stock market, stock ownership and investing. From that day forward, Caroline makes it a habit to check the shareprice of Apple at least once a week. To make the story complete, Caroline got her Apple computer for her ninth birthday and her dad just loves her Apple story. (It would make a great Apple commercial)
My running has escalated and I ran my first race, not a 10k, but the famous Bay to Breakers.(12k) The race starts a few blocks from the Embarcadero on San Francisco Bay and meanders west through the city to the ocean. What an unbelievable experience. There were 100,000 participants and people were dressed in the wildest costumes imaginable including all sorts of strung together insects, naked or partially naked exhibitionists and probably 500 costumed Elvis impersonators. It’s pretty much a big moving party.
Time has become the limiting resource for Maggie and me. We need more and because we do scheduling is critical. Caroline seems to have something going on every day after school and on weekends and we’re always taking or picking up Ben from school or therapy. The reality is that Maggie works harder than I do.
Speaking of work, our percentage of hits and home runs at Rogers Schmidt is running at about 40% which is extremely high for venture capital firms. Fortunately pulling the plug financially or watching an unsuccessful company fail is tempered by the reality in the Valley that failure often produces some of the biggest successes.
Tess, your image pops up in my head often. Sometimes I’ll be at a ballgame or a restaurant and see a woman whose blonde hair looks like you from behind.When that happens, I always wait intently for her to turn around. If only life was that simple.
Dear Tess,
Twenty years ago today we attended a landmark rock concert in Anaheim featuring two relatively new bands, Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin.
So much has happened in the world, the United States and our own lives since that day. Yet, throughout those past twenty years the image of you briefly turning around twice at that the end of the concert remains a treasured memory in my life. Time has passed but your vivid image fueled through my eyes, processed in my head and captured in my heart is as powerful as it was on August 9, 1969.
Instead of looking back one year I now have the luxury of looking back over the last twenty. Maggie has been the most important part of those years. She has been my rock, my light and often my conscience. She has tolerated me when I couldn’t tolerate myselfand she believed in me when I lost my way. I loved her
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