In a matter of two months, I left Telco Credit Union to open up a consulting business, and then closed the consulting business because Cre...

We can all try to hide from it, but there are things we used to care about that we no longer care about. Each person is unique in how thi...

I had always felt a bit cheated. Everyone in my family except me had been called on for jury duty at one time or another, and some had...

I was talking to this other guy who has a computer. I told him about some eerie things going on with my mom’s computer. He told me a story...

I love all my nieces and nephews, but I had the closest relationship with my nephew Tony. We would play basketball, go to baseball games, ...

For many, many years, I lived with the belief that if everybody else in the world would only conform to my standards, then that elusive pe...

This is a re-release of a post that I wrote on February 4, 2009. People ask me how I do what I do. I study. Other than that, I have no ide...

I wrote this poem on November 4, 2007.  I have made it more aesthetically pleasing to myself, and it is ready for its re-release. This is an...

No one will ever know the truth about why Mom chose to hoard everything, which led to a huge mess to deal with when the time inevitably came...

It was only a garage roof, but, after years of admiring Jack, the engineer in the family, I would finally have the opportunity to work bes...

Aside from the obvious levity in the title, and the preposterous notion that any individual has the answers to all truth, the biggest prob...

Every four years we see the people poke their heads out to state again how tired they are of politics. Some of it is actually okay. There ...

Dad was both an introvert and creative. He loved the time he spent downstairs reading, in his darkroom developing black and white family p...

My first friend in Tacoma was Chris Coley. He and his family lived next door to the house my family moved into when I was four years old. ...

Who knows if I really was accessing the thoughts of Socrates and Einstein, or if I was simply going deep into my own mind to search archiv...

Mom called this morning to tell me that my cousin Lee lost his battle with cancer today. He was 61, and about six months younger than me. ...

Dad was proud to be a Marine. He would defend the Marine Corps against all other branches - except when we had lunch with Ron MacDonald. R...

I try to consider the points of view of other people even if I am likely to disagree with someone’s opinion on a topic. I find it extremel...

Dad always sat at the head of the table with Maureen to his left and me to his right. I don’t remember everything we had for dinner that e...

There are places where we write to people whose opinions matter greatly to us because they’re responsible for making decisions on promotio...