Lacunae Musing

  The above is a panorama photo from Chimney Rock, one I took when we first visited the Asheville area.   Lake Lure in the distance became...

Disaster Planning is something we seem to do very poorly.   It took a wake-up call such as Hurricane Andrew to upgrade building codes i...

Whether you are piloting a large ship or your own recreational vessel, most nautical disasters are the result of its Captain being overconfi...

The similarities between the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the ongoing nuclear Fukushima Daiichi crisis in Japan are strik...

As much as I would prefer to write just about anything else, I seem to be helplessly drawn into the vortex of what has become part of a nati...

It is a sickening feeling, helplessly watching the slow motion catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, which is rapidly becoming a dead sea. Now...

By now we’ve all seen the $50 million media blitz by BP in which Tony Hayward articulates that all “legitimate” claims will be honored, as w...

It is Memorial Day weekend, one of profound sadness, for the service men and women who gave their lives for our country, and now what seems ...

Towards the end of the week I am going into the hospital for “a procedure” (a minor one to the medical community, a major one to me) so I at...

It is sickening to watch the unfolding environmental and economic tragedy in the Gulf. I know nothing about the business of drilling for oi...