My wife's father has been extremely sick for a while now.  Two days ago, his wife, my wife's stepmother went in for brain surgery to remove a tumor.  She has additional lung surgery scheduled to follow in a couple of weeks to remove more cancer.  Yesterday, her sister passed away who had been battling cancer for only a short while.  My father-in-law had been the sickest of the three until very recently.  They all live in Florida and now my father-in-law must decide whether or not, or when I guess more likely, to tell his wife that

Over dinner Sunday night, my parents were in the mood to tell stories. They repeated for us, with my children at the table, tales of their parents and their parents’ parents – stories I know I have heard before but which somehow sounded new.

Fred’s blog about control a few weeks ago inspired me to think about a related subject, delegating. I was never good at delegating work. I always felt that I could probably do it better and faster myself. I’ve come to realize that my inability to delegate work was tied into my inability to relinquish control over the work.

    There was big news this week, if you get excitied about the origin of the cosmos.  It even came with a picture on the front page of the New York Times, what the universe looked like when it was a baby, only a few hunderd thousand years old.  

Dr. Francisco Fernandez-Aviles working at London's Royal Free Hospital has been building replacement parts for human bodies. So far he's "installed" 5 windpipes.  

I recently took the 2 featured photographs:"Murder The Rich" and "Kill Money"

Today is the beginning of the NCAA basketball tournament -- otherwise often referred to as “March Madness”. I didn't fill out my brackets and selections for the office pool. I participate in two office pools: one is a lottery pool and the other is the Superbowl pool. Both of these pools are completely random -- a function of luck and chance. Unless you're throwing darts at the board, the March Madness pool requires some knowledge of college basketball. Therefore, I'll sit it out and watch from the bench. If you're in a pool, good luck.

Recently Rob Portman, Senator and perennial presidential candidate wrote an op-ed piece for CNN.  He not only announced a philosophical change in his belief on gay marriage, but also described the intellectual process by which the change occurred.