With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. My wife once asked me, “if you could have […]
Eastern Pennsylvania Attractions Rated
During the summer of 2014, I brought the family on a road-trip to Eastern Pennsylvania. We had a blast. I’ve rated each of our destinations here using my Travel Destination Rating System: We also visited many restaurants, listed here by how much we enjoyed them (ordered most enjoyable to least enjoyable):
The Key to a Lasting Marriage
Most people will tell you that the key to a lasting marriage is compromise. I agree. But it goes deeper than that. Compromise is just one component of a bigger attribute. I’ve been married for more than 13 years. We’ve had ups and downs. Let me tell you, compromise alone would not have kept our […]
Luck and Baseball
Like in every game, there is a lot of luck involved in baseball. Skill is not the only determinant of whether you win or lose. One thing that has always fascinated me is the relationship between Earned Run Average (ERA) and winning. The ERA is a pitching stat calculated by dividing the number of earned […]
An epic 12-day tour of the Pacific Northwest
Before my wife and I had children, we embarked on one last epic vacation with just the two of us. She was already six months pregnant with our first child, so the cruises wouldn’t take us. Instead, we took a plane out to San Francisco, rented a car, and took a 12-day road trip ending […]
Destination: Yilan, Taiwan
I took a day-trip Taipei to Yilan, on the northeastern part of Taiwan, in 2004. It was before the annual Duanwu Festival, where they race dragon boats. Dragon boats at the dock. Closeup of Dragon boat #4. A nice pond at the park. Koi pond with ducks. Another duck. Vendors selling to hikers. Waterfall and gazebo. […]