Hidden Treasures!
It was last fall while I was watching college football that I planned to “multi-task” and clean out this closet. Beyond just the fact that this closet had gotten completely … Continue Reading Hidden Treasures!
Where creativity meets science
It was last fall while I was watching college football that I planned to “multi-task” and clean out this closet. Beyond just the fact that this closet had gotten completely … Continue Reading Hidden Treasures!
Do you ever think about how different your life would have been if one single event had not occurred? Or of the reverse, that had one event occurred, how different … Continue Reading How We Met
Having experienced the beauty of Hawaii firsthand, I often told people it was the one place everyone should go to in their lifetime since it was absolutely paradise on Earth. … Continue Reading Keukenhof!
Everyone has his or her favorite season. Some love the fall with the beautiful turning colors of leaves and the cool briskness of the nights after a hot summer. Others … Continue Reading Springtime!
I love this time of year! Unlike my wife who enjoys the cold and the exciting potential for snow that comes with winter, I absolutely am not a fan of … Continue Reading March Madness!
Just three years after I started my dream job, my manager was promoted into a new job in a different department and I was promoted to manager of the group … Continue Reading How Do We Choose Our Career? – Part 4
I worked really hard that first year to impress both my supervisor and the head of the clinical labs with the quality of my work. Unfortunately, I got a dose … Continue Reading How Do We Choose Our Career? – Part 3
While chemistry in high school is typically a one-year course, in college, it is broken down into four or more years of individual disciplines: inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, … Continue Reading How Do We Choose Our Career? – Part 2
As I approach retirement, I have been doing a lot more reflecting. And one of those reflections has been upon how I ever get started in this career in … Continue Reading How Do We Choose Our Career? – Part 1
Happy Birthday! It has been two years on February 9th since I published my first blog post. And since that day, I have been coming to you every Sunday morning … Continue Reading Two Years!
It was just a year ago that I wrote about my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. But it was actually my own 35th anniversary this past December that got me recalling … Continue Reading Mom & Dad’s Anniversary – 2015
Yesterday I became a granddaddy for the second time, exactly six months to the day since I became a granddaddy for the first time. So joining my first grandson is … Continue Reading On Becoming a Granddaddy – TWO!
My travel year started out early in January with a business trip to New Jersey for an industry committee meeting. I arrived the day before the meeting accompanied by one … Continue Reading Travel 2014
What has become one of my annual blog topics is writing about the best books I read during the calendar year. This year, my book list totaled 27—13 fiction and … Continue Reading Best Books of 2014
Happy New Year! Do you have the problem that I have each year of trying to figure out how to celebrate bringing in the New Year? For such a significant … Continue Reading How Do You Celebrate New Year’s Eve?
For a quick reminder of Memory Ornaments – I. I saved the category of extra special ornaments until after Christmas for reasons that will become apparent at the end of … Continue Reading Memory Ornaments – II