I met my friend Sean Stephenson at his office today and couldn’t resist giving him a hard time about being a Sox fan. I grew up on the north side of Chicago, so my allegiance remains with the Cubs, even though I haven’t followed baseball in years. Throughout our conversation Sean, being Sean, asked some [...]
So it begins…
New Blog. Day One. In January 2007, two days before the end of my six-month fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya, I learned that the company I worked for would be closing our site within a year’s time. It was the second time I’d been laid off over the course of seven years. While I still had [...]