“Contact” May 14, 2014 by Emilio Chaviano One of my favorite movies is “Contact” based on a story by Carl Sagan featuring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. I think about this film when I drive around and I see small dish antennas in homes and apartments. Imagine a dish a thousand times the size of […]

“Be Still and Know” by Emilio Chaviano May 7, 2014 I wonder how many of you know what a typewriter is or how many even have one. Mine was stored in the attic, but now it is in my in my home office. I just ordered the ribbons that will allow me to type both […]

“It Is About Time” by Emilio Chaviano April 29, 2014 Some of you reading this probably remember the song “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” sung by The Chicago Transit Authority (later shortened to “Chicago”) This is really a very important question. Esther was a Jew and became the queen of Persia at […]

“Forward To The Future” By Emilio Chaviano January 11, 2014 It is a new year and we are rapidly moving into the future. Back in 1985 the movie “Back To The Future” portrayed actor Michel J. Fox traveling to the past to change how the future turns out. For many a new year and thinking […]

“How To Succeed Without Really Trying” By Emilio Chaviano September 18, 2013 I trust the title captured your attention at least for a moment. Most people are interested in doing well, or even excel in the endeavors of life. This idea applies to our work but also to our personal lives and relationships. The other […]

Today I read an account in The New York Times of what happened when I was barely one year old. It was April 11, 1945, and General George S. Patton’s Third Army had liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Army Chaplain Herschel Schacter ran through the barracks crying «Shalom Aleichem, Yidden,» – «Peace be upon you, […]

“Take a Break” By Emilio Chaviano February 21, 2013 It happened again today. When I was driving on one of the busy roadways in our city I saw a driver “multitasking.” This is a fairly new word in my vocabulary and it means that a person is doing a number of things at the same […]

“Old and New” By Emilio Chaviano January 19, 2013 We are now in the second half of January and I don’t hear too many people saying “happy new year” anymore. Most people stop saying this after the first week. The new starts getting old very quickly. A new car or the new gadgets we get […]

“Don’t Trust Your Eyes” By Emilio Chaviano December 10, 2012     Pilots in training learn the importance of trusting the instruments and not their eyes for flying at night and in bad weather when visibility is poor. I have heard people say “I have to see it to believe it.” As a matter of […]