Happy New Year!

The waning days and hours of December 2008 in Alabama have been beautiful and warm. I trimmed and pruned trees and other decorative foliage in our yard today wearing shorts. It is very different than all other Decembers I remember anywhere else I have lived (New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and now Alabama).

Michael Salem Peters – My eldest son.

Salem, my eldest son and an aspiring photojournalist, has been placing much of his work on this site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photographsbymichaelsalempeters/. Salem has also produced his first book which may be purchased here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/451268. I have always considered the artistic expression put into books especially admirable so I am trilled that my son has taken his first… Read More

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Well vacations have started and this will give me a good opportunity to catch my breath. My objective is to regain my course buffer of a few days that I lost when my working schedule went bonkers. Individual procrastinators collectively transform themselves into corporate procrastinators. It is hard to avoid the wave of troglodytes storming… Read More

Teddy the one eyed dog.

During the last quarter of 2006, I was on a consulting project based out of Wilmington Delaware. The entire time I was on this particular engagement, I stayed at this very comfortable bed and breakfast called The Pennsbury Inn out of Chadds Ford Pennsylvania. Being the low maintenance guest that I am and given the… Read More

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What a week! The balancing act between family, my day job, and academics can be pretty tricky. I have found that holidays pose the biggest challenge to my finely tuned machine. I run a tight schedule in order to accomplish the things that are important to me. For that matter, I have plotted and planned… Read More