Today was Candidates' Day at Villanova, a day for high school seniors to celebrate their admission to Nova Nation. Candidates’ Day is an ideal time for prospective Villanovans and their families to learn more about the community, academic programs, and campus activities. Candidates have the opportunity to talk with faculty, students, administrators and staff; tour … Continue reading Nova Nation Up Bright and Early at 5:00 a.m. →

Seeing Boz Scaggs last night put me in a nostalgic mood. Reading Henry Rollins's LA Weekly story about Record Store Day this morning also made me nostalgic. The article got me thinking about how I used to listen to music on records, and while the music was playing I would study the album cover, read … Continue reading Saturday, April 16 Is Record Store Day →

Tonight Mary (my wife), Patrick (our youngest son), and I went to see Boz Scaggs in concert at the Keswick Theater, and for my wife and I it was a trip down memory lane. It wasn't just the music that brought back some great memories, but the fact that our first date 38 years ago … Continue reading Close the Window, Calm the Light →

There was an article in today's Wall Street Journal that talked about one of the latest fads surrounding weddings - creating a hashtag so that others can follow along with your wedding via social media tools such as Instagram. Here are a couple of examples: Nell Diamond wed Teddy Wasserman in a lavish ceremony in … Continue reading More Proof That Men Are From Mars →

So maybe Shepherd Mead, the author of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", had it right after all. Perhaps it's not always the smartest, most hard-working guys and gals that get ahead, but it's the ones who learn how to "play the game". That would certainly be the key takeaway from a recent Harvard … Continue reading Playing Office Politics Can Be Good for Your Career →

The other day I wrote a post about a phrase I had never heard of before, "it's like dancing about architecture." And now just today I saw an ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer for a performance at the Kimmel Center called, "Architecture in Motion". Here's a brief description of the show from the Kimmel Center … Continue reading The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon →

The SEC requires mutual fund companies to tell investors that a fund's past performance does not necessarily predict future results. I've got to start thinking like that about my students. I ran into a former student at one of the Villanova rallies the other day, and my recollection was that he was a nice guy, … Continue reading Past Performance Is Not a Guarantee of Future Results →

Today was the day Philadelphia held a parade for the Villanova Men's Basketball team in honor of its 2016 NCAA championship. I've read estimates that approximately 60,000 people attended the parade. Beating North Carolina in what many consider to be the greatest championship game ever played was an amazing accomplishment and the parade was a … Continue reading A Tale of Two Sports →

My wife is a pre-school teacher, and I am a vegan. Well somehow today's Wall Street Journal managed to do a mashup of those two facts by having a front-page story about a vegan pre-school in New Jersey. When I saw it, my first reaction was thinking that somehow the Journal had cracked the code … Continue reading The Wall Street Journal Is Getting Really Good at Customized Publishing (or so I thought) →