A Facebook friend of mine posted this today: “Jane Doe” via Mary: ‘The true soldier fights not because they hate what is in front of them, but because they love what is behind them.’ ~G. K. Chesterton Except here’s what Chesterton really said:   “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in […]

I can’t claim this is getting old.  This week brought another quick trip on the corporate jet. This one was equally as hush-hush as last week’s.  I will say we got some great pics of the plane parked in front of a tiny restaurant in the middle of freakin’ nowhere, complete with a sign, “Friday Night Fish […]

By corporate jet again.  Very last-minute, very secret.  So no more on that. The most important thing is that after another 4,000 or so air miles today, I’m already back home, exactly where I promised my older son The Reverend Doctor Vinoski Sweetness I would be come morning.  That’s when we all go to see him graduate […]

Sure, I’ve had some interesting travels in the past few weeks. But even the most exotic locations in the world (where I mostly wasn’t) can’t begin to compare with being mobbed by my two little boys when I walk in the door, or getting a nice big smooch and hug from my gorgeous wife once the rugrats let me […]

…is a grand tour around most of the US by corporate jet. Yeah, I know, it sounds all glamorous and exotic.  And in some ways it is — I’m currently at 43,000 feet, flying at an airspeed of  647 mph over Toronto toward Boston. But it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.  For example, I’m […]

My new pal Detlef may be the most un-PhD-ish PhD I’ve ever met. He was our host for our work in Germany.  We had long hours in his car getting to and from the places we were visiting, so I was all ready to apply all my Dale Carnegie skills to prompt worthwhile discussion during the drives. No […]

…is almost universally superb. And in reality, none of the people there sound like Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.  But in my head, all of them do.

I’m no international traveler.  But work took me over to Deutschland (Hamburg, specifically), with travels to points in the north of the country and a fifteen-minute dash through southern Denmark, plus stops in Amsterdam traveling both ways. So my next few posts will be about that.  I landed back in the good ol’ USA just […]

Here’s a great article from the Freakonomics blog.