Christmas is almost here! I hope you have all your shopping done. Personally, I always like to save at least one item for Christmas Eve. It forces me out into the night where the spirit of Christmas always lives. And even though mother nature is planning a big snow for us [...]

I had a friend from high school who went to college at Stanford University.  He was ‘wicked smart.’  Not Good Will Hunting smart, but he was the Veledictorian of my high school class and wrote for one of the local papers.  He was smart.
I used to talk to him regularly via telephone (email didn’t exist [...]