More and more credit cards are coming with built in rfid chips. The credit card companies do this to allow the convenience of "tap and go" purchasing ( Read more... )

Some interesting news from NASA on a new form of life ( Read more... )

As hard as it is to try and help my parents, it's even harder when they withhold critical information ( Read more... )

Thank G-d my father came through his surgery in the best way we could have prayed for ( Read more... )

I'm just getting over my mother's double mastectomy from three weeks ago, and now I have my father having cancer surgery later today ( Read more... )

In addition to my Mother's recurrence of breast cancer (which is going to require a double mastectomy), I just hear that my Father has had a recurrence of his cancer on his back ( Read more... )

I saw a bumper sticker the other day.

While it was meant to be humorous, I'm afraid that it too closely defines the attitude of too many in America today - particularly (but not limited to) the younger generation.

If at first you don't succeed
Redefine SuccessAnd it seems that a good number of those who are running our government hold to this ( Read more... )

After spending much of last week hospitalized for chest pains (thank G-d a false alarm), I am back among the land of the living ( Read more... )

Right now we're in the middle of Chanuka.

In addition to latkes (fried potato pancakes), another traditional food of the holiday is donuts - especially jelly donuts.

Last night I force fed my two sons who are at home a half-dozen jelly donuts each. (OK - there wasn't too much force involved ( Read more... )

Have you ever had one of those moments of sudden illumination, where - while the world may not have suddenly turned upside down - something you've taken for granted for years or decades suddenly turns out to not only have been wrong, but so foolishly wrong that you can't believe that you ever believed it? This evening I had the second such event ( Read more... )