My flight to Florida today was delayed (lots of mail parcels can be crammed at the last minute into the business end of an MD88, apparently) but despite the inconvenience, it was a pretty day and evening to be in the air. We landed in Atlanta just...

I’m leaving tomorrow afternoon for a brief business trip to Daytona Beach, Florida. The hotel where I’m staying and the meetings I’ll be attending are right at the airport, which is just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean. I’m going to make a point to...

I was walking my dog this morning, along the same street by the same park we pass at least once each day, and I noticed something different. A house near the park, that I’ve always thought is kind of cute, had some different decorations today. My eye...

Ground control to… Dots and dashes. Smoke signals traveling through the radio silence.

After a very challenging day, I was treated to a beautiful sight this evening as I crossed 7th Street and walked east toward the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station at 5:10 p.m. Ok, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory website the moon is only 99 percent...