Unqualified Candor

Today we officially got on the list. 

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - You might remember my conversation with God from a couple months back.   Apparently California is listening.  I was in San Diego last week for work and at the airport I saw a billboard I liked and snapped a photo of it.   The caption below the photo says, “FACT: Cigarette butts are […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - I recently began to search for someone I lost.  Her name is Ludmila (Lucia) Pistryak (Людмила (Люся) Пистряк) . 
Ludmila is from a small village outside of Kharkov, Ukraine (Харьков, Украина).  The village is called Pyatihatki (Пятихатки) and just just a couple miles from the Russian border.   Don’t mistake Pyatihatki as a village of Ukrainian […]

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TOKYO, JAPAN - I’m reading this morning about an announcement made by a California company that they have successfully cloned a human embryo using a single skin cell.  I’m an absolute layman when it comes to the science of stem cells - but I follow the developments closely and recognize that it is a frontier that will […]

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HONG KONG, CHINA - It is almost that time of year again - Chinese New Year.  Kong Hei Fat Choy! (Happy New Year!)  By the lunar calendar, Chinese New Year moves around within the Gregorian Calendar.   This year, the occasion will happen on February 7 - marking the biggest annual celebration in China and other […]

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CHICAGO, IL, USA - God - I love this guy, Barack Obama.   I’m not naive enough to think that he’s AS qualified or AS prepared to be the leader of the free world as some of the other candidates - he has strengths where they have weaknesses and vice versa. I’m aware of what his […]

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