Nadia Comaneci Update

15 years ago I reviewed the autobiography of Nadia Comaneci. You can read it here. That year in November would mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During that time Comaneci was plotting her escape out of the hell hole that was Communist Romania. Now a new book recently published in […]

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It has been 2 years since I last posted. A lot has happened, both positive and negative. In 2022 I started a new job. In 2023, my mother got seriously ill. Her health got so bad, it left her incapable of living on her own. In less than 3 months I had to find an […]

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I was in the process of reading Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann when The Wall Street Journal reported that General Electric(GE) was separating into three businesses: Aviation, Healthcare, and Power. Thus ending the conglomerate status of GE. Full disclosure, I worked as a contractor […]

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone: I have come to the unfortunate conclusion I will have to disable my commenting function. I have been bombarded with spam! Between cooking our Thanksgiving meal, and erasing over 1000 spam comments, I had no other option but to remove visitor’s ability to comment. I always look forward to viewing responses to […]

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We live in a time when there are endless documentaries and books about serial killers and other psychopaths. Do we really need another documentary or about Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy? I prefer biographies of individuals who contributed to the advancement of civilization. I want to direct your attention to one of my favorite renaissance […]

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I will not beat around the bush.  2020 was a horrible year, and I am glad it has ended.  2020 laid bare the destructiveness of an out-of-control government, and a degraded culture.  Point blank, we are in serious trouble.  My biggest concern was for my mother who had a serious health crisis.  I wanted to […]

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It’s been 9 years since Steve Jobs has died. And I can say his absence is greatly felt in the business world. We all know about Walter Issacson’s seminal biography for which I have not read. However, my favorite blogger Gus Van Horn posted about a biography that is not as well know called Becoming […]

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I know I am late on posting this but in November was 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A month later on Christmas Day the Romanian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown and he and lowlife wife were finally executed. About 10 years ago I came across an autobiography from Nadia Comaneci, […]

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Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Margery Hannah, and Virginia Tucker the NASA Americans have never heard of until movie came out over two years ago. I first heard about Hidden Figures from reading an article in the New York Magazine. The author Margot Lee Shetterly was interviewed about her research on these incredible women […]

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I know it has been a long time since I have written a blog post. My father’s health took a turn for the worse in January. Sadly, he died in May. I just have not been in the mood to blog. I’ve been dealing with grief, my father’s estate, and my own life. I am […]

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