Last weekend, my wife and I joined some friends for a weekend adventure to the Great White North, visiting our neighbors in Canada for a few days of winery visits and good company. We left Maryland last Thursday, and the drive north was full of fall color and beautiful weather. The trip to Canada is only about six hours from our neck of the woods, so it was the perfect time of year for a fall drive. We stopped in…
I’m not sure how many of you out there follow science and space news, but if you’re not watching the news coming from SpaceX, you’re really missing out. Now, I’m not a big fan of their imperious leader (Elon Musk), but his pocketbook is bankrolling this whole operation, so for that (at least), I give him props. He throws money at these far-flung space projects like he’s trying to win a bet with someone (maybe Mark Zuckerburg). For those of…
One of the things on our family’s “bucket list” is to someday see the Aurora Borealis – aka the “Northern Lights”. We talk about trips to Iceland, Norway, or Alaska, but in order to see the jaw-dropping splendor of this natural phenomenon in its prime, we’d have to travel in winter to places much more frigid than the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., which my girls are not too keen on, overall. Luckily, Mother Nature, in all her grand beauty,…
This past weekend, I celebrated another birthday. I turned 57, which is not old enough to qualify for Social Security, but still is old enough to say “may I have the senior discount, please?” at the movie theater. Anyway, at my age, a birthday is a good time to pause for a moment and reflect about the past, take stock of the present, and look forward to the future. I’ve made my share of life mistakes, but I’ve never had…