On Friday, Sept. 6, at 11:27 p.m. the launch window opens for the LADEE Mission on Wallops Island.  This is a big deal for the East Coast as it is, to my understanding, the largest rocket ever sent into space from our side of the country. If the Antares taught us anything, it was that… Read more »

The kids are back in school, which means that it is now time to get ready for Christmas and next summer.  There’s simply so much to do.  I have to clean the garage, finish the many projects around the house, get ready for a season of robotics and make sure that the kids all get… Read more »

Another week brings us closer to the end.  Our clock is ticking.  We are all one day to be bereft of life. Try as we might, we must own up to the reality that with each passing season comes a sense of mortality.  And nothing seems to remind a parent with young children of our… Read more »

I walked around all day on Sunday proclaiming ‘Musubi!" Donning my Hawaiian shirt and an apron, it was a fitting exclamation to another successful party at the Yacht Club. An event held to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Ocean Pines, an opportunity for the ribbon cutting for the new and improved pool facility, and a… Read more »

One of the simple pleasures in life for me is picking beets out of the garden. This amazing vegetable sums up the word ‘summer break’ to me and their taste is nothing short of sublime when prepared correctly. Our little farm in the backyard has seen better days but these beauties grew like champs. It… Read more »

Survival: A simple word that can mean many things to many people.   Some merely try to survive the day-today drudgery of their cubicle or try to make the inane seem ultimate and extreme. Others are literally fighting for their survival.   Many years ago after finishing SERE training (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape), I… Read more »

There is nothing quite like seeing the flash of fear on a child’s face when he realizes that his seat on the water park ride is now at the bow of the craft … heading backwards as he plummets over the falls. It seemed that the more he requested of the lifeguards to be facing… Read more »

Raised in a country that thrives on patriotism, it is second nature to pronounce the four syllables of our national moniker when singing one of the myriad anthems written to inspire and move us. Mayhap when one is speaking to a board of some sort, or arguing his case in front of the magistrate, “Amer-… Read more »

 So it is now almost midnight. My keyboard is well-warmed as I have already finished tomorrow’s agenda and menus are done for the various parties that I have coming up this holiday. I wish the game could have been a little closer to at least be interesting, but you can’t always get what you want. … Read more »

Wanderlust rocks my very foundation as I awaken. Did I dream about the British Isles? Was I thinking of Provence as I nodded off? Am I really itching to travel to the Germany or the Pacific Rim again? No, it is the after-effect of teaching global cuisine, a fascinating subject that confuses the issue of… Read more »