A Storm’s Comin’!
The dire weather warnings for this weekend have reminded me of the worst blizzard I ever endured in my hometown of Grand Forks, North Dakota. I was a senior in high school and oblivious of what was going on around me—so, a typical teenager. One Friday night, my two best girlfriends and I decided to […]
I went to Venezuela once. They were still a democracy then.
Back in the mid-1980s (1983, to be specific) I was laid off from my first professional position as a geoscientist by an oilfield services company in Dallas called Core Laboratories. It was hard times in the industry—I’d survived the first three rounds of layoffs before the ax finally fell on me. It began a tough […]
The Tragedy of Gene Hackman
A few weeks ago I watched my worst nightmare play out in the news, first as a notification on my phone and later in the online newspapers I read: Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa died alone in their home in a remote section of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Their bodies were not found […]
