Characteristics of the world’s most admired companies

Fortune Magazine just published a list of the world’s most admired companies. The ranking on the list was established by a few more than 4,000 executives, directors, and securities analysts. I do business with number 1 (Apple: all my computers since 1984) and number 50 (Samsung: LCD HDTV) and many of the in-between ones (Google, […]

March birthdays

The birthday girls, plus one

Cortnie

We celebrated with the birthday girls on Sunday. Of course, the little one thought it was great fun.

Cortnie

Chase

Several little experiements from the magic science kit were tried. I was interested in her reaction (pun intended) to the invisible […]

Cancer survivors on the emotional roller coaster

Having experienced my wife’s diagnosis of breast cancer (doom and gloom scary), her mastectomy (pain for a few days), her chemotherapy (slow death, hoping it kills the cancer cells faster than it kills her), and her radiation treatments, I thought her life (and mine) might return to normal after a year or so of cancer-clear […]