Men think with their head, with their heart, with their lust. Those are three different voices that often are often in conflict. Our hopes and dreams are often in conflict with our fears and doubts.. There

I dropped my granddaughter off at a local community center. She and some classmates are volunteering time to Hurricane Harvey clean up efforts. I went with a friend to Houston Chinatown for lunch. I had

This is what I see driving around my neighborhood House after house starting to clean up after Hurricane Harvey. My family was lucky. Water came within a few inches of the house but not inside. We didn't

I live and work in the south suburbs of Houston. There is a lot of flooding. A lot of neighborhoods are being evacuated. There is also a lot of neighbors helping neighbors, and strangers helping strangers.

Sometimes you are born into a family. Sometimes you are invited into one. Everything changes when that happens

A radio announcer today noted that today was Mick Jaggers birthday. Earlier I had seen a mention of it being the birthday of noted playwright George Bernard Shaw. A quick Google search turned up dozens

Mystic Desert Bar Chocolate covered Bacon Not for the diet conscious

In my life I have seen thousands of sunsets in real life and thousands more in photos. I never tire of their beauty. Shout out to This post was inspired by a comment I made to a recent sunset picture she

Springtime in Ohio. Summer in Ohio Autumn in Ohio Winter in Ohio I live in Houston now but I lived most of my life in Ohio. The 20 years before moving to Texas were spent in a remodeled hundred year old

I am typically up by 5am, even on weekends. My favorite way to start the day is with a morning swim and a cup of coffee by the Koi pond. I am not a religious person, but I can say that I have been blessed

I have been to Stonehenge several times. This picture was taken in 2004. It is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments. There is a lot of speculation and theories about its origins but it remains

The granddaughter is a huge Shawn Mendes fan so we agreed to let her go to a concert. I went along as chaperone. I will confess, I wasn't looking forward to it. The idea of spending a couple of hours in

In 2016,China surpassed the US in two critical supercomputer metrics. It currently holds the top spots for the fastest supercomputers in the world and it has more supercomputers in the top 500 list than

A Google app creates dream images from photos. It was made public in 2015 and enjoyed some short lived buzz. I had forgotten about it until this morning when some random abstract art picture reminded me

The outdoor landscapes of my youth were the green fields of Ohio and the Appalachian mountain forests of Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The desert landscapes of the American southwest are a world

. It is a beautiful day for a balloon ride. I have been in planes and helicopters. I have been skydiving several times. I have been to the top of skyscrapers. I have been to the tops of mountains. I have

It's hard not to be excited by 3D movie glasses

In one of my first posts, I mentioned that I am learning Mandarin Chinese. I am taking an evening class at Houston's Rice University ( my granddaughter thinks it's hilarious that I am learning Chinese

In May we went to a house concert featuring Matt Haeck. I had never heard from him, but I am always open to listening to new music and on the recommendation of a friend, we went to the show. It was an

A recent Scientific American article focused on recent advances in deep learning techniques that are revolutionizing advances in machine vision. While the advances play out across a range of fields, the