The 40 Year Co-op
Way back in 1980, a young student from Northeastern University joined The MITRE Corporation as part of Northeastern’s cooperative education program. His father, who also worked at MITRE as a group leader on programs...
A Tale of Three Toilets
This is one of those blog posts that will most likely make you laugh. You will laugh because you are thrilled these are problems that I am experiencing, and not you. The problems I...
The Two Dollar Crowd
We are a sprawling family. There are over 40 of us, and, over the years, we have seen each other on a fairly regular basis. When my cousins were little, there were the holiday...
Flooring – Part 1
I’m reading a book on writing essays called Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction where the authors say the essay writer “can have the most mundane of experiences and make something that surpasses them....
Birthday Weekend
I turned 59 this past weekend. Not so very young. But not so very old either. I am a bit stiff when I get up from sitting for a while, and I have a...
Family Time in May
Readers of this blog may have noticed I like my family. Not just my immediate family, but my extended family. During the month of May, I will have had four weekends of family time...
A Shot in the Arm
Since my father died, I have often thought about what he would think was most odd about today’s world. And that would definitely be the technology. Specifically, the devices – laptops, tablets, cell phones,...
10 Days with Caleb
After spending ten days with Caleb, I am back in Florida. In total, I was away six weeks, and I am ready to be outside in the sun and on the tennis courts. And...
Letters to Caleb
February 25, 2021 Dear Caleb, I haven’t met you yet, but, as the saying goes, I love you to the moon and back. That’s because I know your Mom, and I happen to also...