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Category: Thoughts

  • Word Tales: Hogmanay

    New Year’s Eve in the United States is a time revered for ending a year with bad decisions (usually too much drinking that leads to other poor choices) and then flipping over a page to start the new year with a clean slate. At the end of 2020, I was exposed to the word “Hogmanay”,…

  • Remember, Remember the Third of November

    With the election today, this is very much a political post not intended to stir fervor and challenge opinions. It is intended simply as documentation of my condensed thoughts during a historical time.

  • Basement Isolation in the Age of COVID

    COVID rules the world. I went into a group of people, and then I spent two weeks in my basement. It wasn’t bad, but it sure was surreal.

  • Apple Watch: In Memoriam

    This week, I said goodbye to a friend, my OG Apple watch, and now I grapple with what life looks like in a post-Apple Watch world.

  • The Mosquito Situation

    Filthy bloodsuckers, mosquitoes are the bane of my existence. Where the little monsters gave me a peaceful, undisturbed May, June, and most of July, they made up for their early shyness with a vicious assault over the last two weeks on any bared skin.

  • The Vocal Volume Conundrum

    Folks, we have a problem. My girlfriend says I am too loud when I play video games. I know, that is absolutely ridiculous. Let me break it down and show why she is unequivocally incorrect.

  • Life, Death, and Finding Meaning for It All

    Life is short. Death is inconvenient. When a loved one passes on, it’s time to take inventory on what “it” all means and decide how to make your time worthwhile.

  • A Landlocked Ocean

      The ocean is far away and full of hidden surprises. Lake Michigan is not the ocean, but it is vast and full of secrets. Standing on its shoreline, you may as well be gazing across the Pacific. The lake is both gorgeous and terrifying as the water beckons you out to feel its caress,…

  • Winging It: The Flying Experience

    Does anyone care about air travel anymore? People obviously still use it and do so regularly. But does the act of rising off the ground and hurtling through the sky at hundreds of miles per hour still bring any thrill to the passengers? From simple observation, I would say, “no”. I feel the ability to…

  • Boston at Night

    City skylines are beautiful structures when illuminated at night. I’ve seen a few such as Chicago, London, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. The most recent feast for my eyes was Boston. I’ve already written about some of its history, and the old city is an amazingly vibrant part of what makes Boston worth a visit. The…