Now, how could anyone hate string. Well, I do! Actually, I do not hate all string, just a particular piece of red string about a foot long. This chunk of string was taped to the windshield of a vehicle I was in this morning. As the vehicle moved, the string …

This last week I got to spend four days hanging out with some of America’s greatest. I was with a group of over 30 Shuttle Astronauts, and about five who flew on the Apollo (most to the moon), and a few who flew on the Gemini Capsule. One of …

When I was born – way back before the earth had cooled, my parents lived in an apartment in Roslyn, Virginia (right across Key Bridge from Georgetown University, where I was actually born!) At the time, our next-door neighbors, were Evelyn and Andy Tarapchak, who became my second parents.

Evelyn and …

In a previous post, I talked about my experience as a kid – seeing a model airplane fly an amazing single flight. I have had the plans for that airplane sitting in my office at home waiting for me to get them framed. A few weeks back, I drove down to …

Well, maybe not that kind of Rocket Scientist, but a more normal one.

On my way to work the other day, I heard the unmistakable sound of a small airplane cruising overhead. I looked up to see a plane I recognized immediately, and I was transported back to 1973 - to a place about 2000 feet above the ground near Dayton, Ohio.

The players …