Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
Are you rich, but hit rush hour traffic? No problem. Soon, you will be able to turn into George Jetson and fly over the hoi polloi. A start-up in San Mateo County, California, has produced a prototype flying car. Alef Aeronautics recently received FAA approval to test its flying electric vehicle. It is more like…
A Brief History of Family X The following is the final chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. It is hard to put lipstick on a pig. Errol X and Maye Haldeman’s marriage dissolved after nine tumultuous years. Maye was high-spirited, physically attractive, and intelligent. Errol was her equal, but…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. John Elon Haldeman was an intelligent and educated man who relocated his young family from Minnesota to Saskatchewan. Although his son Joshua was drawn back to Davenport, Iowa, to attend the world’s first…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. Continuing from the last chapter, Maye Haldeman married into the family X in 1970 in South Africa. Maye’s roots lie in Switzerland in the Mennonite faith. Her Haldeman family was forced out of…
President Trump’s erratic “the-world-is-on-fire” executive orders, pronouncements, and tweets have left the world’s economies and markets in chaos. Perhaps that’s what he wants… or maybe he doesn’t know what he wants. Possibly, he paid someone else to attend his world economy classes at the Wharton School. There is usually a method to anyone’s madness or…
An update on a post from May 17, 2025 The ninth launch of SpaceX’s Starship ended with two explosions, or, in Musk’s lingo, “rapid unscheduled disassemblies.” Not only did the booster explode after sending the second stage into low Earth orbit, but the second stage also disassembled over the Indian Ocean after going into an…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. Errol Graham X was born to Walter X and Cora Amelia Robinson X on May 25, 1946, in Pretoria, South Africa. His childhood was difficult due to his parents’ marital problems. His mother…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of the famed family X. Walter X never knew his biological father, Harry X, who died one year after Walter’s birth in Pretoria in 1916. Since Lucy Champion and Harry were divorced shortly before Harry’s death, we cannot…
I’m a little embarrassed about my birthday. However, there is a positive and a negative side to being a Gemini… I am a proud Gemini but… Donald Trump is a Gemini too. On the other hand, so were…John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Victoria, Paul McCartney, Judy Garland, Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman, Richard Wagner, and…
A Brief History of Family X The following is a chapter in a series about the evolution of family X. This story begins with a young lad from a poor English background, around 15 years old. He was the son of an unwed mother in a poor agricultural area in Suffolk County at the bottom…