On Sunday the 16th of July, we returned from a week’s cruising with the family. That afternoon, while unpacking, I took a moment to jot down this poem to help wrap up, at least to me, some of the complex and conflicting feelings which can come returning from such an experience. Memories from the Decks No more…
This is Ely singing karaoke at the Countyline Restaurant in Weirsdale, Florida on July 28, 2022. She’ll probably kill me for sharing this, but a Papa’s got to do what a Papa’s got to do. This was before she stepped fully into the stage world. Since then she has spent a couple of years performing…
Back in the late 70s, my wife took our very young son out to Colorado to visit her folks. I stayed behind in Florida. I was a builder then and had too many jobs going to break away. I missed her. I had a new Martin guitar I’d bought a few months earlier, and during…
We took a Jeep out of Silverton and ran the Alpine Loop in late May, climbing up Engineer Pass and working through some of the snow that was still hanging on the higher sections. It’s a striking route, with sharp drops, big views, and a sense of real altitude the whole way. I brought the…
Here is a bit of an improvisation I did on a nice Fourth of July. This is an amazing piano, a Clavinova 809. Behind it sits my Kawai grand, which is hard to beat, but the 809 gets surprisingly close. It is a perfect jazz platform and can do great trios. Just me and my…
This was Ely’s and my first recording together, done in February 2020. Ely was twelve at the time. She has always been an artist at the core, and we plan to record more when we can. I wrote this song, and it is my copyright, 2020. I wrote this song from memories of my newspaper…
Ham Radio is an interest that is seen from two viewpoints. First is: To each is own. I just can’t quite get the passion these guys feel about talking on the radio to someone else. I mean, when you have Skype, and Email, and Twitter, and Facebook and Youtube and……and…. and, how can you find…
About 6 years ago I was confronted by a reader of my blogs wondering if I, as a registered Structural Engineer, had ever heard of “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth”. I told him that I had, as a side, but had never delved into anything they had said. He, basically, called me a “coward”. This…
In past days coal miners placed canaries in mines to protect them against the ravages of poisonous gases which could quietly snuff out their lives. The canaries were placed to react and, yes, to die creating a warning for the miners before their own awareness of the looming dangers. We rely upon early warning systems…
This video was originally produced by Discovery Wings and follows Kim and me on our flight from Tampa to Oshkosh for the EAA AirVenture. Flying our own airplane up there, camping by it, and diving into the full fly-in experience was already a highlight of our flying life. Having a film crew along turned it…