Nowhere Near the Edge

In an unusual mid-week excursion, we saw the latest Die Hard movie last night. If you liked the first movie and you can suspend your disbel...

As seems to have become normal during the summer months around here, we had a blackout this morning that lasted nearly an hour. Michael, wh...

Astrophysics must be a mathematician’s dream. With no environmental factors to distort the outcomes, the behavior of celestial bodies can b...

I spent yesterday in San Francisco, participating in oral argument before California’s First District Court of Appeal. Actually, I was done...

Sportscasters are often in search of phrases that convey a sense of testosterone flung about with abandon. Somewhere along the way, someone...

A clever artist once gave us "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World": Perhaps the view from Ohio is similar. Or, perhaps...

Welcome back. We now resume our story, in the second full day at sea... Following our departure from Nassau under cover of darkness, dawn f...

Last night, thanks to the generosity of an acquaintance, we attended a special performance of " George Gershwin Alone ." This one...

Our first morning at sea found us pulling into the Nassau harbor. After squeezing through the breakwater, our enormous ship pirouetted with...

German cars are notoriously expensive to maintain. One obvious reason is that the parts are usually manufactured overseas, and are not in g...

While we wait for the rest of the Disney Cruise pictures to upload... For those of a certain age, who are now in prime career/childrearing/l...

Our first morning in Florida found us fully encompassed by the Disney gravitational pull. After a great buffet breakfast in the hotel, we p...

Our (unexpectedly) second annual trip to the Bahamas began in pre-dawn darkness that felt little removed from post-dusk darkness. I, in par...

Sorry for the dearth of posts recently, especially since a couple of you may be waiting to see happy snaps of our recent vacation. Those wi...

Twice in the past month I have watched the hillside hear my office erupt in flames, the most recent occasion being yesterday. The office is...

It has been touch and go for weeks now, with a trial standing in the way. However, I'm relieved to be able to now look forward to this:...

A new section is currently being written in the Law of Unintended Consequences. Automobiles using a so-called “hybrid” powertrain, which co...

Cormac McCarthy has long been described as this generation’s William Faulkner (it is not accidental that McCarthy’s first major editor had b...

I spent much of yesterday in the company of a business associate who was in town (that town being San Francisco, incidentally) from Florida ...

This past weekend I had the opportunity to take part in a reunion of the Schubertians, the men's chamber choir of which I was a part whi...