A few months back an attractive young dental hygienist who had just started with my dentist’s practice had me in her chair for the first time and in a sincere effort to lubricate the gears of social interaction led off with this beauty: “So, are you retired?” It was a really bad question to ask […]

I’m not sure how I’d classify us as to size compared to other timber frame companies. And what does size mean? Average, or perhaps, combined employee body weight, number of projects raised yearly, total board footage worked per year, number of pegs purchased, amount of revenue or simply the number of people comprising the company? […]

My darling wife, in anticipation and celebration of my 65th birthday (actually, it was to be my 66th if one counted the actual day of birth as #1, but few do) proposed that we bicycle through France. I guess she figured that since I had had my left knee totally replaced fully eight months ago […]