Highlights of a Year in Review

2008 was a good year for me. I helped my daughter learn and grow and learned that there is one more girl on the way next year. I made several close friends, took all the necessary steps to purchase our first house, read 34 books on various topics (although the total is ten short from [...]

Christmas On The Come Back

Another Christmas has come and gone. Each holiday season seems to come and pass faster than the last. And not one of them compare to the Christmases of my youth. But as a kid, Christmas was magical, with the anticipation and excitement of what Santa would bring, the break from school, and the time spent [...]

The Alternative Universe

There are times in life that make me pause and think, “what if?” It’s one of those exercises that everyone has gone through and it is usually a pointless task and waste of time. Life is what you make of it and considering what might have been is not something I engage in often. But [...]

The Journey Continues

I have been busier at work in Switzerland than I have been in New York. Each morning I wake up early, have breakfast at my hotel and walk the few miles up the road to my office in the cold, dark morning. Fourteen hours later or so, I walk back to the hotel, hardly seeing [...]

Switzerland Travels – Round Two

After a relaxing solo trip from New York to Zurich, I have been enjoying Switzerland this week. The weather is not as cold as I thought it was going to be and feels essentially the same as New York. There is less snow here than I thought (which I good) and I have been busy, [...]

Back to CH

I am off again tonight – going back to Swizterland. I was there for most of September and now I will be returning to a much colder, snowier Switzerland for the next two and a half weeks. The weather calls for snow tonight in the Zurich area, meaning that my commute tomorrow morning could be [...]