I am not an apologist for George Zimmerman. Given the pattern of burglaries in his neighborhood, the man was justifiably suspicious of Trayvon Martin (and that is the subject of this post). BUT he made an utterly bone-headed decision when he disobeyed the Police dispatcher's instructions and started following young Mr. Martin on foot, thereby ( Read more... )

After a month of nearly continuous work, our grant application to the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program is in. We were scrambling like mad things at the end to get it in on time ... then due to the on-line application web site crashing at least twice in the last 36 hours before deadline, the granting agencies moved the deadline back six ( Read more... )

Time does funny things. When I was eight if you mentioned the word chores I would promptly disappear. Chores were anathema. At age thirty-eight I actually find them soothing -- something I discovered while ashacat was in India. Who would have thought that I would find comfort in the orderly progression of the evening's household labors?