On our Tacoma visit in early March, we saw the marvelous Miss Jane Lorenzi. She took us for a lovely day trip on the ferry to Vashon...

March 3, 2019. The Wall Street Journal recently published some interesting statistics and graphics, trying to identify the cities with...

Spring open houses have been a Loyola ritual for me for more than twenty years. And this is also the third year that I will go 'on the...

Readers of this blog know that over two weeks ago, while driving to Loyola after a storm delay, the windshield and roof of our Toyota was...

...is knowing that it will be over soon. I don't mind the snow or the cold, even the wind is not that much of a bother, as long as I am...

Years ago, when I was a reasonably serious, sometimes competitive runner, one of my running mates, Bob Hughes, a Kansas marketing...

Super Bowl Sunday. In the past forty years, my interest in the Super Bowl has declined consistently and precipitously. One of the joys of...

January 30, 2019. I did not even own a sport coat, let alone a suit. The shirt was a pale blue checked shirt and I am pretty sure that...

Forty-one years after we left, images of our Eden home, from January 2019. Hat tip: Mary Ann

Our daughters inspire me in powerful yet very different ways. While both daughters are beautiful, hard working, determined and committed,...

It was a sweet, sentimental journey to join the Mad Dogs faculty running group for their fortieth annual event this past October at the...

I remember when I told a family friend that Gaby had earned a spot on a very competitive travel soccer club. The friend cautioned me as...

While I am known to take great pride in my emerald domain, to the point of breathlessness and obsessively straight lines cut precisely...

One of the joys of having spent most of my life living well below my means and saving for the future, is that the "Where next?" question...

When I was young, I was committed to my education, my career and my long-term viability, both in terms of financial and physical health....