Preoccupation at Sea!
Three weeks of doublehanding from Hawaii to California brought its share of learning. The passage included both good and bad, but a...
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Jul 3
Things That Go Crash In The Night!
Four of us were asleep on the boat, quietly moored outside the Cabo San Lucas harbor entrance. It was midnight. In my sleep-distorted...
Jun 6
Why Youth Matters
We start out young, ignorant, and helpless, with few ideas and believing almost anything people tell us. This absence of beliefs and...
May 2
How to Live Forever
In the 1990 movie, Joe vs. the Volcano, Joe agrees to jump into a volcano to appease the gods on a South Pacific island, after learning...
Apr 1
Three Epic Fails
When I was buying my boat three decades ago, the owner gave me advice that I remember to this day. The advice was given in the context of...
Mar 5
Splitting Arrows
A cupboard door that won’t close, a screw that won’t go into its hole, a boat that bangs the dock while entering its slip, or a team that...
Feb 4
The Courses That Mattered Most
Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University famously describes how a calligraphy class inspired the addition of fonts to...
Jan 9
The Worm Within You
We have legs for locomotion, arms and hands for manipulation, senses for experiencing the environment, and sexual organs for reproducing....
Dec 8, 2023
The Inevitability of Progress
The tyranny of the urgent has captured the world. Your cellphone beeps, reminding you of your next appointment. What a Godsend that you...
Nov 4, 2023
From Impossible to Possible
Looking back, we can often see points in our lives where things changed and took a new turn. My 10-year high school reunion was one such...
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