Several years ago, our precocious 6 year old son informed me we were going to write a book. It was going to be about a tree house I promised to build for him. By the time he finished creating the story and I had finished building the tree house (which actually took place over a […]
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Sunset Alert
Sunset Alert. It started out so simply 30 years ago or so. One early evening while working in a skyscraper in Philadelphia, I walked to the western side of the building and noticed how spectacular the sunset was. Feeling that our team needed a break from the tedium of the audit I returned to our […]
Peace
The sun broke on the watery horizon, as if being pulled into the aurora of its first light. The waves from the crystalline turquoise water lapped softly against the shore of white sand, still cold on my feet. I stopped to watch the sunrise and felt my feet sink into the sand, the receding water […]
Lessons Learned
It started out as a joke. Really. When I visit family and friends I like to drive their children to school in the morning. That windshield time without their parents has always been fruitful. After driving Joey one morning a few years ago when he was in 6th grade, he joked that I should teach […]
Heroes
When we turn our calendar pages on Thursday to September from August this year, many of us will find it unbelievable when we focus on the fact that THE September 11th was 10 years ago! This was an event that was to have forever changed our lives, our patriotism, and our sense of what is […]
Lives in the Balance
As I am writing this newsletter, my wife is leading a delegation of junior high school students to visit two villages in the mountains of El Salvador, her eighth such visit. For these students, it is language and cultural immersion as they live with local families, share meals, play with and teach the children. One […]
The Jury is Still Out?
Nearly a year ago I wrote about the inadequacy of the words used by the media to describe the horrendous environmental disaster that would “spill” what I then estimated as 100 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. That estimate too was inadequate – the total volume of oil that gushed into the […]
A Chill in the Air
Late in the evening of Sunday, December 16, 2007, I was fortunate to have been visiting the central coast of California. I remember that night vividly. I was walking back to my room, the air crisp. In that region the climate is interesting, alive. The hills breathe in the moist sea air during the night, […]