It was the first evening in months that finally felt like Autumn here in Reston, Virginia. As I ran errands I listened to Tim McGraw sing one of my favorites, “Live Like You Were Dying” which always inspires me to try and eek the most out of every second of…

A modern Rorschach Test You scan the scene looking for the best angle to capture the beauty, composition and light of the scene you sought out and made a significant effort to get to the perfect vantage point. But occasionally the picture might be the earth right in front of…

I broke the sound barrier on January 16, 1995 on the Concorde and this is what it was like: Air France upgraded my return trip from Paris → New York to a seat on the only passenger jet to fly faster than the speed of sound, in fact it cruised…

The mushroom cloud rose into a red twilight sky. A warning siren wailed in the distance. It was 1963, I was 5 year old little boy pushing my favorite toy firetruck down the driveway of our brick ranch-style suburban home on the outskirts of Charlotte. I knew what this meant…

Thanks Eddy for the only article I've ever read about good bedtime and morning habits that inspired me to want to change my own somewhat inconsistent behavior, particularly in the mornings where I usually sleep late if I don't have an appointment which undermines the circadian rhythms that are critical…

I agree with your proposition that christianity has the essential elements of a philosophy, and I would also add mythology (as Joseph Campbell illustrated in his NYT best-seller: "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" (1949) that became the PBS Special: "The Power of Myth" (1988). Reading your excellent article I was reminded that my Philosophy 101 professor felt similarly when he assigned the class to read writings by leading figures in the most prominent world philosophies, the first of which was:

Sad but true; because the anti-vaxxers decided the science-guided guidance (aka 'rules') for slowing (to an eventual halt) the spread would violate their 1st Amendment 'right' to free-speech-- as a protected form of self expression -- the pandemic evolved into a pandemic of the un-vaccinated, and by negating the possibility of protection for the overall population to reach herd immunity. What I havent heard is the anti-vaxxers talking about is their part in obliterating the path to herd immunity for the greater good of those vaxxed and not, while claiming protection of 1st Amendment rights while trampling on my right to live safety by not breathing the un-filtered expirations of anti-vaxxers.

Hi Jennifer, Thank you for your very kind comments on this article of reflection about my father -- it meant a lot. Thanks! Maybe this is what an 'Afterlife' really is, ie living in a way that when you're gone people who knew you remember you and care enough to keep your memory alive, or as my friend and fellow writer Sean Murphy (Seanmurphy.net) wrote in his memoir dedicated to his mother after her death a few years ago: "Please Talk About Me When I'm Gone"

In the midst of all these extraordinary weather events we're seeing around the globe, I've had this frightening sense this sure does seem eerily like what climatologists have been saying the planet will be like in ~50 years, or even a little farther in the future if we're lucky. ButIf…