My childhood spanned the era of the Space Race and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In other words, the 1960s. Therefore, my earliest answers to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” were influenced by those two cultural icons. I expected to be a spy, and…
For many, the exciting anticipation of seeing the peak of Mt. Denali (or Mt. McKinley) ends in disappointment. At an elevation of 20, 310 feet, Denali is the tallest mountain on the North American continent. And of all the mountains on the planet, Denali ranks but third in prominence and…
On a recent Saturday, I awoke to a weather alert on my phone. The National Weather Service had issued a severe storm warning for our region with the added threat of tornados. The tornado threat level was both significantly high and rare. All the conditions pointed to the potential for…
Many years ago when living in Vermont, we took a vacation to Bar Harbor, Maine & Acadia National Park. One of the boasts of the area is that, if you’re at the top of Cadillac Mtn at sunrise, you’ll be the first to see it in the United States. So…got…
Steve Jobs hired Tim Cook in 1997 to help bring Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy to being the highly profitable company it had been until Microsoft Windows-based PCs took the home and business computer industry by storm. It was a daunting task. Cook’s role as Leader of Operations…
