Fruitful Detours
I just passed a 3000 day streak on Duolingo. Duolingo is a popular language-learning platform, and is one of the ways that I’m studying Spanish. There are a few different ways to think about 3000 days. One perspective is that 3000 is a lot of days in a row to do anything. Another is that […]
Alaska is intensely beautiful. Just the color of the glaciers is a blue that looks both clear and somehow alive. I just got home from a cruise to Alaska through what is named The Inside Passage. It is just a tiny sliver in the Southeastern corner of this enormous state. From the ship we could […]
I attended a graduation ceremony for one of my nephews a few weeks ago, and it was one of those long ones, where they read each graduate’s name and they walk across the stage. I was bothered by the behavior of some of the audience. The Dean had asked everyone to hold their applause until […]
If you are a race fan, then you already know that driver Scott Dixon won the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 in August. He did it with some skillful driving, but also by employing a smart fuel-saving strategy. While everyone else in the field had to make 4 pit stops, he made only three. I have […]