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...

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...

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...

Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University famously describes how a calligraphy class inspired the addition of fonts to...

We have legs for locomotion, arms and hands for manipulation, senses for experiencing the environment, and sexual organs for reproducing....

The tyranny of the urgent has captured the world. Your cellphone beeps, reminding you of your next appointment. What a Godsend that you...

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...

After a sailboat race, it is common for crews from different boats to ask each other, “How did you do?” If the crew being questioned did...

Beryl looked back to see a great wall of water towering above her, so high and steep that she knew Tzu Hang could not ride over it. The...

We were hard aground on a South Pacific reef, with the sun and the tide both falling. We had gone through the prescribed steps from my...