A friend directed me to a site that, after you answer 8,234,247,896,240 questions, gives you a few sentences that allegedly describe your personality to a T.  My response was as follows: You are a skywalker. You love adventure, both intellectual and physical. And you greet new challenges with passion and bravery. When you get interested […]

Goodness — has it really been a month and a half since the last update?  Herewith some more updates and observations. 1.  Work has been … work.  Not too bad; it’s helpful having more people in my area to share the workload.  Yet the tasks and the environment haven’t changed much in the last six […]

I’ve decided on the perfect cash-out-young retirement plan:  Custom-build a live-aboard sail boat and circumnaviate the world. No worries.  No agendas.  No missed connecting flights.  Want to lay at anchor in the Carribbean for a week?  No problem. Apart from the threat of pirates and the occasional stormy sea, a self-sufficient existence upon the ocean sounds […]

I’ve been doing less blogging lately, mostly because my evenings are increasingly filled with activities that preclude a visit to Kava House for coffee and writing.  Herewith a summary of recent events and observations, dutifully chronicled for the benefit of posterity: Holy Week went well.  I ended up serving as parochial master of ceremonies for the […]

A letter arrived yesterday; I didn’t recognize it for what it was, so I didn’t open it until this morning.  I didn’t expect to receive it at all, to be honest.  Its body consisted of a single sentence — a sentence that hit with almost physical intensity, and its effect downgraded my mood from “introspective” to […]