A Beacon of Light

“We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew that we were having fun.”  Winnie the Pooh Fifty years ago, in the spring of 1975, my high school classmate Dan Pasini and I spent the academic year teaching in the Bahamas. It hardly seems possible that so much time has passed since that life-changing…

“Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”  Roy T. Bennett With joy, enthusiasm, and gratitude, on August 1, 1984 I began a new job in Santa Clara, one to which I would devote the next 31 years of my life. A job, like any relationship, I suppose, has its…

“I can get away before the storm hits.”  Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman had the right idea. This past weekend, the local news channels were predicting that a series of significant storms would hit the San Francisco Bay Area beginning on Wednesday, so I took advantage of the opportunity to get away for a walking day…