I grew up in a steel town, Bethlehem PA. My dad worked for “The Company” aka “the Steel” for 43 years. The company, of course, was Bethlehem Steel. Up until the mid-1990’s it would have been hard to separate the town from the company. Everyone was in some way connected to what at one point in American history was the second-largest steel producer in the United States. Bethlehem Steel reached its peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the company employed around 300,000

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” ― Rachel Carson   This gratitude Friday I am writing about Raptors. When I say this, most people think I am talking about dinosaurs. A raptor is actually a bird of prey . Most people are thinking velociraptor . Related, although distant cousins , far removed. Bird watching is one of the few things I can do that stop the chatter in my head and holds

" We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard " - President John F Kennedy September 12, 1962   President Kennedy made the " We choose to go to the Moon " speech before I was born. He said we would develop technology and get to the moon before the end of the decade. It was part of the space race between the US and the USSR, which started a few years earlier when the Russians put a basketball sized sa

“ We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way .” ― Viktor E. Frankl   It is Gratitude Month, officially in the United States. National Gratitu