Why I can no longer grade your work.

This morning, I am plowing through over 150 emails.   Many of them look like this: ================================================= 1.    Quae sunt insignia imperii? Fasces et secures insignia imperii sunt. 2.    Quomodo Romulus civitatem auxit? Romulus multitudinem...

Coffee Break Italian

On Monday, July 31, I flew down to Miami, Florida. Long story short, I had left a vehicle there when my family flew to Athens, Greece.  We were going to pick it up on the way home. But, on April 13, my son ended up in the emergency room in Aurora, Colorado.  We flew...

Seemed like a good idea…

In March, my family and I drove to Miami.   We left our van at a storage facility about 20 minutes from the airport.  It was our plan to pick it up in July when we returned from Athens. But, then my son crashed in Denver, and we flew directly from Athens.  Our van...

Oh man. This explains a lot.

“There is a basic rule of bureaucracy. It is an almost unbreakable rule. Bureaucrats within the bureaucracy never want to hire somebody who is really talented. The presence of such a person within the bureaucracy makes every other person in the bureaucracy look...