Sun-kissed skin, with a smile. Confident pose. Happy to be with friends at the beach. Requisite palm tree with desired coconuts. One Isa’s best-friend’s (and mine too) family beach house. This was shortly before we got married on the 11th of January 2008. El Salvador, circa January 2008.

My father-in-law was a wonderful guy. We grew closer when my father passed away in July 2015 and when my wife passed away in April 2017. He really filled a void and supported me in every-way possible. He passed away in May 2020. I miss him. This is one of …

Books I read, or re-read, circa November 2014

Two books that I have frequented for the past 20 years include: “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Induction and Probability,” by Laurence Jonathan Cohen”; and, “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” by Julian Jaynes. Both books were introduced to me while an undergraduate student; …

Writing, quick and witty. Not to mention: wonderful coinage of a rather threatening portmanteau.