Tag Archives: Parenting and Life

On April 7, 2006, during a business trip to Boston, I learned Laura was pregnant — a total surprise. I spent this past Easter weekend reflecting on how much our life has changed, as well as how much its gotten better. We love Julian Frank Kalehoff so much.… Read the rest

No predictions — I’m sick of them. But looking back at 2006, here are ten things — some everyday, small and some major — I’m happy and thankful for:

1. My son Julian was born
2. My now 13-year-old cousin Ariel survived bone cancer
3. I have a happy, healthy family
4. I have great friends
5. I have a cool job and nice colleagues, and work in an exciting field
6. My window-box flowers lasted the entire summer and into the fall, and looked pretty good
7. We sold our home in Brooklyn and now are able to get a new home for our larger family
8. My Jeep Wrangler, which I purchased in college, is 11 years old and still runs like new
9. I documented personal and business life through just over 2,000 digital photos, over 10 hours of video (and a lot more hours of editing), a few hundred blog posts and about 40 published articles about media and culture
10. I launched AttentionMax

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As if my wife Laura and I didn’t have enough going on with the recent birth of our son (aka, sleep deprivation), a fulltime job and the holidays, we just closed on the sale yesterday of our apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 

I already miss Brooklyn, where Laura and I ventured to from Manhattan in 1999 – a few years following our graduation from Syracuse University.… Read the rest

Self, a Conde Nast publication for women, where my wife is psychology editor, just posted on its blog a sneak peak at the 11 babies born to parents on the staff in 2006. They’ll be featured in the January issue, and my little Julian made the deadline by mere minutes.… Read the rest