Reason and Reflection

/Much has been said and written about Silicon Valley, California – the tech incubator/capital of the world.

Around June of 2023, I noticed a prominent “lump” on my right-front thigh.

This is the story of, arguably, the most important inventor in the long history of wireless communication, or radio, as we call it today.

My wife, Linda, had completed a long-standing labor of love just in time for Christmas, 2024 – her memoir of serenely happy days growing-up in Altadena, California.

This story continues a post of the same title I published on June 7, 2019.

One of America’s finest WWII heroes left the confines of earth for the last time on May 17, 2024.

On April 8, of this year, a total solar eclipse occurred across the United States that caused much public awe and excitement.

This past Sunday, Fox NFL televised a great football game featuring the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. the San Francisco 49ers.

Two so-called “summer blockbuster” movies were recently released to theatres in the grand tradition of past studio offerings.

There are few things in this world that do not interest me.

Our daughter, Ginny Kubitz Moyer, has just published her first novel, titled The Seeing Garden.

Barbara Streisand made the haunting melody and lyrics memorably famous in the movie of the same name, The Way We Were, which premiered in 1974.

The USAF Thunderbirds flight demonstration team is coming to our area in October, and I just purchased flight-line tickets for their performance.

More than fifty years ago, when I first developed an intense interest in Abraham Lincoln and this country’s Civil War, I was struck by Lincoln’s eloquent command of the English language.

I have done several posts in this blog about the wonderful aviation legacy handed to me by my father, Alfred Chester Kubitz.

On November 24, 2015, I posted on this blog my impressions of a new star in the firmament of college football.

I recently celebrated my eighty-second birthday.

Recently, I stumbled upon an item while routinely browsing E-Bay for interesting (and affordable) ephemera.

My sister, Karen, occasionally sends me “snail-mail goodies” from Peachtree City, Georgia – news articles having to do with my multiple interests.

Recently, I received a text from my daughter, Ginny, who was vacationing in upper New York State – not far from Cooperstown.