I’ve started this piece several times over the last two weeks, and each time I got deflected and went on…

Last weekend I took a Uber downtown. After a few minutes of chit chat, my driver told me he was…

Maybe the pen is mightier than the sword, or so it seems in the worlds of crime and, lately, politics.…

This is my first Swarfblog of 2017 and it’s not about the Cubs. I am grateful to be able to…

I’ve seen a lot of change in my lifetime.  Cubs winning the World Series.  The Berlin Wall falling.  The Internet…

As a headhunter who recruits in the fields of engineering and manufacturing, I can often judge in a matter of…

I’ve been talking to a lot of smart people and reading some well-researched material so I can pretend I know…

In the fall of 2015 Michelle and Matt Hertel gave birth to a baby girl and a 5-axis CNC milling…

Those Russian thieves! First they steal back Crimea, then they steal our election (maybe?), and now they are poaching our…

Last week, on November 21, it was the Fortieth Anniversary of the release of Sylvester Stallone’s opus, Rocky. The news…