I’ll bet you were thinking that I’d forgotten how to write! For my sake, I hope you’re wrong. There’s certainly a lot to write about in my life recently, but […]

There is a sickness plaguing this nation, if not the entire developed world. It is a sickness born of tragedy and incubated by panic. Spread by the winds of outrage […]

This entry breaks an unwritten rule to which I’ve held myself. In the years since I began this blog in August of 2003, not once have I mentioned the name […]

I’ve been somewhat disturbed lately by the number of trite phrases used by writers, particularly in journalism. I wonder if the trend represents a decline in general creativity. Why is […]

It’s strange how certain terms, even ones I’ve used in conversation, correspondence, or expository writing, can go unexplained, their meanings merely abstract concepts that fit my thoughts at the time. […]

What’s that you say? A month ago I promised to finish my epic tale of sunburn and homesickness? I apologize for what must have been intolerable suspense. Life has been […]

As a friend pointed out recently, it’s been some time since I wrote here. It’s not been an intentional hiatus; rather, my creative energies have been focused in other directions […]

Note to British readers: Please substitute “right” for “left” and “left” for “right” in the following discussion. Note to Jamaican readers: This will be very confusing, and you might want […]

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Two weeks ago, my co-workers and I were given an “offer” by our employer. The company is apparently broke, and we were given […]

As I walk out through the glass door of my office building and into the serene stillness of the parking lot, one clear voice shatters the silence. At first the […]

Some of the best photographs I’ve ever taken have been happy accidents. I was once a very active pilot. I’m not now; I fly desks and mixing consoles and digital […]

I apologize for the headline, but it’s a fairly common trait among aviation people to be a little callous about airline crashes. I admit that I’d be far less so […]

I haven’t had a lot to write recently, so I thought I’d share something with you that I’ve recently rediscovered. I read this many years ago while in high school, […]

UPDATE 28 Feb 2009: Several letters (the old fashioned kind, printed on paper, sent in envelopes with stamps) have been dispatched to higher-ups at Georgia Power and its parent company, […]

Something very real and personal is troubling me, and I need to write about it to clear my mind and try to find direction. Thus it seems I have returned […]

A few years ago, I lived in the small town of Douglasville, Georgia. Shortly after moving there, I began to discover that there was a reason that the town was […]

From today’s news (emphasis in the last paragraph is mine): BEIJING, Dec. 6 (AP) – (Kyodo)—China successfully launched a hybrid rocket Friday for the first time, Xinhua News Agency reported.The […]

Hello all.  I’m on the road again this week at March ARB near Riverside, California.  It’s been quite hectic, and in reality the very last thing I’ve got time to […]

Each year on November 10 in Silver Lake, Minnesota, a long-retired lighthouse is brought back to life and sends forth a piercing beam of light, and in Detroit at the […]