Bermuda is a small island that appears to be lost on a map in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. And it almost was. In 1505, a Spanish explorer, Juan de Bermudez, captain of the Spanish vessel La Garza, is reported to have seen the island on a journey between Cadiz, Spain and Mexico. He […]
The Rock Boat Continues to Deliver Experiences for a Lifetime
After getting off The Rock Boat, I always have so many friends and family ask me how it was. I often repeat the line I’ve heard over and over again from Ken Block, lead singer of Sister Hazel: “For those on the outside looking in, it’s hard to understand. For those on the inside looking […]
Live a Life of Possibility: 3 Books to Start 2020
In the first month of 2020, I completed reading three books. Two were done by Audible and the other was read in print. All had something in common: living a life of possibility. They also all explored the themes of time. As we begin a new year, we are reminded that time is ticking and […]
2019 Year In Review: Running Down The Dream
2019 was perhaps the best year of my life. And, when I sat down to review everything I did and accomplished, I have to add that it must be one of the most productive years I’ll ever have. Voyages The thing that most defined this year was the sheer amount of travel I did, both […]
Final Books of 2019: Starting with Why; Ending with Love
Two of the final books I read in 2019 were both read by Audible. They are below. With these two books completed, I surpassed my 24-book reading goal of 2019 with one bonus book, bringing me to 25 books total for the year. In total, I read 8,914 pages. I did 10 books by Audible […]
Book Review: The Smallest Minority
“The original sin of the American intellectual is his desire to be popular.” That is clearly not one of the sins probably ever committed by Kevin Williamson, a National Review Institute fellow and author of the new book, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics. We now live in an era […]
We Can – and Must – Defeat the Alt-Right
“America First” is a slogan that goes back to at least the early twentieth century. It made itself popular in the American culture just ahead of the Second World War, when the “America First Committee” was formed to oppose America’s intervention in that global conflict and to encourage the United States to retain its neutrality. […]
Book Reviews: Talking to Strangers, Drug Lords, Savages, and the Virgin Mary
I have now completed 22 books in 2019 and four of them are reviewed below. Three of them were not on my original list when I began this year, but sometimes your experiences throughout a year take you onto new paths of discovery. One of the reasons I chose to read William Golding’s classic novel, […]
Finding Inspiration at the Bermuda Entrepreneurship Summit
The Bermuda Entrepreneurship Summit was created by Jared Kleinert and he opened up the Summit there in late November by welcoming us all and telling us we would encounter many unexpected things while also learning how we can better ourselves and our own entrepreneurial activities. Jared then introduced Bermuda’s Minister of the Cabinet, Wayne Furbert, […]
Food, Fellowship, and Mezcal
As I detailed in my previous post, we had an incredible Saturday in Mexico City that included walking through many of the parks, visiting the main plaza, and making a pilgrimage to the shrine of the nation, perhaps the holiest site in all of the Americas, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. When we […]