"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret." - Benjamin Disraeli It's 8:08, and I still haven't done anything about the...

"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization." - Friedrich Engels I started the day not sure what I'd...

'There are old pilots And there are bold pilots But there are no old, bold pilots." -Col. Patrick Bowman, USAF 99 combat missions, WW2...

"I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would...

I'm gettin' sick of this universe Ain't gonna get better, it's gonna get worse And the world's gonna sink with the weight of the human...

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is...

I'd planned on a travelogue from a great weekend with P, but today is shaping up to be pretty delta sierra so I think I'll save the...

"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable." - Voltaire So, another political convention retreats in...

"The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I...

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." -Horace Last night completed our cinematic trifecta of Willie Wonka...

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool." -Carl Jung "As I walk through this wicked world Searchin' for...

This week has been a blur. We're back at the farm this morning, and in a few minutes I start an expert witness deposition, one of the...

"Don't ever forget that you just may end up being wrong." -James Buffett So, P and I last night found ourselves in a conversation about...

"To do two things at once is to do neither". -Publius Syrus Back when I flew for a living, we learned about the perils of cognitive task...

"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him." - George Herbert A short post today after losing my Monday between flying the Columbia to...

"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead." - William...

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James It's been a gloomy political season in this country, feeling like the...

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who...

"It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a...

"Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no...