Newton’s First Law of Motion states that a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it, and a body in motion at a constant velocity will remain in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. I’m going to be ( continue reading… )

Collectively, the three of us have had some somber, serious and even dark posts lately. Hopefully, our family and other readers recognize that as honest admission that life isn’t always great, but with the love of family and friends you can work through anything. With that said, and with my ( continue reading… )

I recently read a book, The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks, by Martin Jenkins which talked about how we measure time. Before the invention of the mechanical clock every great civilization measured time in its own special way, with the associated problems. In ancient ( continue reading… )

Memorial Day is a special holiday for those of us who have served in the military and for our families. We have so much to be thankful here in America considering what others in the world are going through. We are truly blessed. This holiday is supposed to be a ( continue reading… )

I wanted to follow up the darkness post with something “lighter”, so chose the Tolkien quote, because it does a pretty good job of summing up what I hope you glean from this post.  I cannot promise this will be my last “preachy” post, but this is part of the ( continue reading… )

Good memories: Making butter in kindergarten Human demolition derby on the playground ice sheets with every guy in fourth grade Learning mumbly peg Getting my first dog Making my can of Jolly Good soda completely empty because I shook it so long during our field trip to the Field Museum ( continue reading… )

I have started and deleted this post several times, for a couple of primary reasons, but mainly because the personal examples are still difficult for me to open up about. Of course, most of the times I started this column I was already in a bit of a mood, so ( continue reading… )

We did a lot this weekend as a family and I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. It’s just so nice to be back together even though I understand and accept that it’s temporary as our children begin their own adult lives in their own unique ways. I cherish every moment ( continue reading… )

Here are some random thoughts that hit me while I was in the shower. Why do we only give our children (for the most part) three names?  Why not just two – or why not four, or five?  If you Google your name you will find literally dozens of people ( continue reading… )

I was reading Peter Diamandis’ weekly newsletter (highly recommended by the way) which described a newly invented bra that will help detect breast cancer and I couldn’t help think how fortunate we are to live in this time.  I mentioned in a previous post how my grandparents had watched the ( continue reading… )