Straight from my management class notes: Ayn Rand said, “If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans… they were the...

The number beliefs people "get wrong" about capitalism and freedom never ceases to amaze me. “He who seeks freedom for anything but...

Strava enabled me to produce heat maps of my running exploits, from Appleton and Harrison (top left) to Timonium and Towson (bottom...

Fauci has a well-earned reputation for putting his ego well ahead of the science or the economics of Covid and the poor political...

July 17, 2020 -- Month five of the pandemic. Ed Lorenzi would have been 97 years old today. Summer continues, with hot, humid weather,...

Dena Adrienne Qastin, pom pom girl! July 17, 2020.To be brutally candid, my life these past four months has probably been better for me...

Thank you, Fr Carl, and Holy Spirit staff! Happy to see Fr Carl in his element and for my second first communion at the Holy Spirit...

Better yet, enumerating and expanding upon them. Blessings timeline · February 2018: Put 601 Oak Farm Court up for sale. Sell in March....

A recent Accuweather interview of Penn State professor, using JHU data, report that 117,000 Covid deaths moves the pandemic to second...

By Steve Bigler I am a retired physician.  Over my career, I've had some contact with epidemiology.  I'll be blunt here: I came away...

Lessons from a real father, born and raised in the United States. Fought in World War II. Reflecting is an almost full-time occupation...

It took a year, from breaking ground to laying the sod, but Touchdown Drive now has a sodded lawn. We are now in the fourth month of the...

June 13, 2020. Thirteen weeks of this combination of boredom mixed with occasional moments of severe anxiety has often sent me to...

Diane Johnson, Paige and Ed's Longview neighbor for more than twenty years, sent this photo to me. It was the last one she received from...

The day has come! After a day of preparation yesterday, this morning the sod truck arrived and a crew of ten started the installation. We...

June 1, 2020. The large photo to the right is from Google maps. The mow pattern shows a commercial cut, meaning I was not mowing the...

After eight months of mud, today we have progress towards a lawn. The prep crew arrived this morning to spray the topsoil, prepare the...

May 16, 2020. The reliance on 'experts' that has characterized the arguments on public policy during the pandemic highlights a problem...

May 16, 2020. Jane and Abe came into my life around 1989, after Dena graduated and we began dating. She was working for Kimberly-Clark in...

Sometimes the best pictures remain undated. I really can't be sure as to when this photo was taken. It could be as recently as 2005, as...