Carpe Diem

I just spent the weekend with my daughter Amie, who lives near Santa Barbara, California. It's our annual mother-daughter get together a...

You want to make the most of your empty-nesting years. Yet, your willingness to engage in new activities may be affected by how you think ab...

We had lunch with Kate today. Four of us who had met, and assisted, or edited, or project managed, or whatever, at Saunders College Publishi...

Blogs should be short, right? Well, Saturday I attended an adjunct event at Montgomery County Community College. The session on Classroom Ma...

Gary, Mom, and I visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening. It was a bit of a last-minute decision, but a very goo...

Recently, Gary and I had the opportunity to hear Gary Jobson, ESPN broadcaster and former America's Cup skipper, give a talk about the 3...

Arrived in Rome on Friday. Once you finally get there, it's amazing how different things look than what you imagined. Our hotel (Bram...