The process of learning a foreign language has a number of stages. Each stage seems exciting, new and impossible to overcome. Yet somehow after we internalize the knowledge, a new stage presents itself in due time. I learned the letters and the most basic constructs of the English language in school, but I was not serious about it until my last couple of years…

School habits are essential for proper development of our children. A couple weeks ago I re-started a project to learn a completely new subject. It could be driven by endless curiosity but continuous learning has become an important part of my life. We all learn something new every day but I’m talking about picking up a subject and devoting enough time to it to at least have an introductory understanding…

Growing up in an apartment building, we had a hallway that had four doors to four homes. My mother would always clean the entire hallway but for some reason our neighbors would only clean the small area between their own door and the hallway entrance. It would always puzzle and bother her why they only cleaned in front of their door. Did they think dust in other areas would not move? A few years later…

I have been working on a small writeup for a couple days but today I as watched the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, I decided to write a few thoughts instead. I recommend everyone watch this hearing but not from the perspective of what is being discussed. I noticed that the once revered Dr. Greenspan who had even been considered more powerful than the president of the United States at one point was being attacked like a common criminal…

While watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing this evening, one thought would not leave me alone. So much is being communicated without a single word! No speeches, no common language, yet the message came across loud and clear. Along the same lines, I heard on the radio a few weeks ago a filmmaker comment about Charlie Chaplin and the movies of his era where the motion picture was able to express almost every situation and human emotion without a soundtrack. My little daughter is able to express …