Back to Blogging

Alright, back to blogging after a year, and back to the one I started last year…
As a person who has a major interest in science and math, I look for patterns in everything. Sitting on the porch with my wife (after a plate of home-grilled swordfish and broccoli) I began to think about the decades of my life to this point. Fifty years ago, I was preparing to become a Cub Scout. Forty years ago, I was running 100+ miles per week, getting ready to join the cross country squad at the University of Richmond upon graduating from high school. Thirty years ago, I was moving to Durham, NC, to take a job as an assistant cross country and track coach at Duke University. Twenty years ago, I was beginning studies in microelectronics, and introduced robotics into my Applied Physics curriculum, using the programming language BASIC. Ten years ago I began teaching C++ to the AP Computer Science and Computer Programming classes I had just taken over. My oldest son Thomas was a student. This year, I’m learning Game Development and Simulation to teach in a new course I’m putting together. Each decade was a new beginning to some part of my life. Each beginning was a major chapter in my life. Other years have memories as well, but these were significant. Each of these periods involved taking a chance, and using that chance to better myself, and perhaps to help others. Taking chances can produce great things, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have gained some measure of success with few dismal failures.