Don’t even get me started about the sorry state of American technological and economic competitiveness and our complete ignorance of what really made the US a great and growing country since it’s inception. We are so caught up with balancing what is politically correct, what is politically achievable and not disrupting paths to reelection that [...]

A few days after my wife and I recently celebrated our 21st anniversary we spent about a week in the Dominican Republic with our kids and some friends.  One night, I found myself mesmerized by this fountain (blurry picture above).  As I sat with a drink in hand staring at it, I was spellbound with [...]

I spent the commencement of the new decade with my family and friends on the beaches of the Dominican Republic.  We had a terrific time.  Not only because it was 85 degrees instead of 25, as it was back home, but because of the surprising variety of interesting people who stayed at the place we [...]

I was completely blind-sided.  I thought I was prepared, but I was so very wrong.  It was just going to be another step like any of the infinite others that define parenting and the relationship between a parent and a child.  A father and a son.  I’m so naive.  A few weeks ago and like [...]

Even though I’m a boater, I generally ignore weather forecasts.  Not they they aren’t important, but in my experience they’re frequently inaccurate or, at least imprecise.  I find myself often waiting around for the forecasted inclement weather to happen, blowing off whatever I had planned for the time.  Unfortunately, it often doesn’t show up or [...]

I spend most summers with my family on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.  This year, we haven’t spent much time at the “Lake,” but this hasn’t disrupted my pattern of yearly visits to the local hospital in Wolfeboro.  There was the summer with the broken neck (a smith machine fell over on me at a [...]

While I’m addicted to search like most people, I’m not married to a particular provider.  I have a load of search engines in my Firefox search drop-down list which, conceptually, lets me choose the most appropriate one to get the fastest access to the best results.  That said, Google has been my default search engine [...]