Bionics, Pandemics, and the No Lives Matter Movement — I think the most engaging articles that I write, at least to me, are the ones that start with a simple comment or observation that is indicative of a huge trend which I can comment on. There have been two of them that happened during the year of the pandemic…

We were at my friends house when it happened. My son came out from his friend’s bedroom and said “I found it!” Sitting in his hands was a little black computer mouse I had bought him a few months before. He had had it for about a week and he…

A while ago, I wrote a bit of a high brow article all about the concept of not repeating our mistakes and really exploring why we sometimes attempt things again, even if we learned it was a bad idea. Today I’m sort of broaching that subject again from a different…

I have a close friend who is about to turn forty. I knew her since she was in her teens, college and into her first job. She, shockingly, is still at that company nearing the 20 year mark with them. The company, like so many other private sector organizations has…

We are in the political season. I say we are in the political season, but if you’re reading this you’re probably thinking I’m insane and you’d be right as the big elections were last year. For clarification, I tend to write my articles six months to a year in advance…

She was screaming at me. She screamed at me a lot, almost to the point where you would think she was my wife. As heated arguments go it was pretty normal in that there were several interterwoven points to the back and forth as it escalated in volumen and adamancy…

When I interviewed for my current job I was told what the long term plans were for my position. Specifically the vague idea was for me to be teaching a subject I had no background with . The laudable goal on the part of my institution was to provide for…