Tied Up Today

Today we are celebrating Evelyn's birthday (yesterday). She asked me to wear these pink and purple shiny stripes and diamonds, and she a...

Grandson Joel chose pink and purple stripes and diamonds to celebrate his birthday!

The news is out! My newest granddaughter, Dana Rose Alicia Kleppinger, was born yesterday evening. She joins four siblings at Jonathan and C...

 Today's story about my tie strains the limits of rationality and imagination, but that's "par for the course" when it com...

By wearing this tie today, I am renewing a tradition from 2011 and 2012 for the "first working day of the new year." Jonathan and ...

Wearing a shimmery pink and purple tie to help celebrate a bunch of birthdays today: chemist Hermann Emil Fischer (1852-1919), physicist Ma...

This is a day to celebrate events of many stripes and intersections: 451 Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle...

For Father-in-Law's Day, I'm wearing the favorite colors of my wonderful sons' wonderful wives, pink for Courtney and purple for...

For International Men's Day , I'm proving my masculinity by wearing my nice pink/purple tie on a bold purple shirt.

Mallie Jayden Elizabeth Kleppinger was born yesterday! Jonathan and Courtney are the proud and very happy parents. They gave me this tie for...

Since it's happened two years in a row, I guess it's now traditional for me to wear this special tie for the first work day in a new...

GK: "I want to wear this tie, and I'll connect it somehow to the anniversary of the publication of Einstein's equation E = mc 2...

First day for work in 2011. Yesterday, Courtney (and Jonathan) gave me a "New Year's Tie," explaining that this pink and purpl...