Retribution: The Battle for Japan

I just finished reading Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings, a history of WWII in the Pacific. It took some time to slog my way through it. Hastings recounts many personal stories he gathered from letters and verbal histories, and I found it difficult to follow the flow of the overall history […]

St. George dinosaur tracks

So this was our first morning of our vacation to experience how long it takes to get the three kids organized and fed at a motel. Clearly there won’t be any early morning departures on this trip. After leaving Barstow we motored right on through downtown Las Vegas, stopping for lunch at a Chipotle Grill […]

Leadership FAIL

The election of Scott Brown as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts has thrown the health care bill off track. Regardless of whether the bill will improve the health care situation in the U.S. (what is in the bill, anyway?), the tactics used to negotiate the bill offends our innate sense of equality and integrity.

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