You Can Always Find a Correlation If You Look Hard Enough

Perhaps I'll return to blogging more regularly, but I wanted to share this. You might have heard the Redskins rule: If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the incumbent will win. As strange as that might sound, it has correctly predicted the winner of the presidential election 17 out of the past 18 elections. Well, a few more have been found...check this out: Yahoo article on NFL trends signaling the election winner

Worth a Read

I started a class instructing me in the methods of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment, which, to me, seems to highlight the core of the what, how, and why we learn. There is a lot more to say about FIE, but I would like to share a story that my instructor Nora Davis gave us in class. Written by Jerome Weidman and published in The Reader's Digest in 1955, “The Night I Met Einstein” is worth the read.

Trip to Spain

During the early part of August, my first opportunity to travel outside the United States, led to me to Hondarribia, a small city in the Basque Country of Spain across a bay from France.

Txingudi Bay

For more pictures of the bay, stop by Txingudi Bay on Hue and Light. And stay tuned... more posts about this lovely part of the world will be coming.

Labor Day

It has been busy for the past month with a mixed of nice and difficult moments. Add the start of the school year and no posts found their way to the blog in August. Of course, this lack of posts will change, though I've never been the most consistent of bloggers. Still a lot of words and pictures drift across the synapses of my brain. Some will be finding their place on the various blogs I write.

Life Several Hundred Feet Up

During our stay at the Buckingham Athletic Club Hotel, Sandra and I had an opportunity to observe the insect population living outside at the 40th Floor. Yep, insects live that high. I saw several fly around and occassionally land on the window and hang around for a while.

We also saw...


High Rise Spider

...a spider work on its web—unexpected and amazing.

Sunrise, 7/2

On our last morning at the hotel, I caught some more sunrise images.


Sunrise Chicago

For more photographs (and larger sizes), check out Sunrise from the 40th Floor, July 2nd on my other blog, Hue and Light.

Wedding Photos

Some photos taken by our wedding photographer, Jill Hornok, are available on her Facebook page in the gallery, Sandra and Bill's Wedding.

Sunrise, 7/1

Another day...
Another sunrise...


Sunrise on the Lake

For additional photographs and larger views, check Sunrise from the 40th Floor, July 1st on Hue and Light.