Our daughter Natali plans great vacations, so when she invited us on a future photo safari, we were thrilled at the chance. We have always wanted to see Africa and being able to do so with a travelling expert made it all the more exciting. After checking all the cool travel sites, I decided to review…
Every week my dad organized a family chess tournament among the kids, offering one dollar to the winner and an additional dollar if that winner could go on to beat him. I never lost one of those tournaments which made them increasingly fun for me but decreasingly fun for the other siblings. Eventually he added…
In a recent column Andrew Sorkin commented, “We have a financial literacy epidemic in America.” His was referring in part to some foolish fiscal Ideas being floated by elected officials. Many of these ideas are coming from the younger members of congress, those of the so-called millennial generation. Millenials are often ridiculed by other generations for…
In training, flight instructors often give challenges far beyond what you are likely to experience in a real flight by artificially simulating multiple system failures at the same time. On one challenging maneuver I missed an action to which my instructor replied, “Make sure you never forget to hit that switch in this situation.” Exhausted,…