America
“The Tank”
Yesterday was one of the biggest honors of my life. I woke up, put on a suit and checked out of the Ritz Hotel at Crystal City, Washington DC, with my colleague, Nick Skytland. We had been invited to give our “Generation Y Perspectives” presentation to the wives of our nation’s military top brass, as [...]
Our Nation: Culture and Change (part 1 of 2)
(originally posted at www.opennasa.com) Culture. What does that word do for you? I hear it thrown around a lot when talking about change. And change, unless maybe you’ve been living in a Thai jungle for the last 2 years or so, seems to at least be a hot topic on many people’s minds lately. (No [...]
These Are Times
Ababail Adams, in a letter to her son, John Quincy, said: “These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. [...]
