Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (book review)

I was never one for setting goals, even though I was encouraged to do so in building our travel business. Our travel business turned out just fine, thank you, without goal setting. I found a book that resonated with this strategy. “If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead,” writes James Clear in …

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World (book review)

After Franklin Roosevelt passed away the next President, VP Harry Truman, was told a secret. There’s “an immense project that was underway”, Secretary of War Henry Stimson told Truman, to develop “a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power.” Author Chris Wallace writes in his book Countdown 1945, “The project was so secret—and so potentially dangerous—only a handful of people …

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (book review)

Whew! That was my reaction to reading Eric Schlosser’s detailed account of the USA’s nuclear weapons program over the years in his book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety” Schlosser tells of many near catastrophes where accidental nuclear explosions were narrowly avoided. Airplane crashes with fully armed nuclear bombs, accidents in missile silos, …

Trip Report: Tim and Anne’s Holland America Nieuw Statendam Western Caribbean Cruise (December 2019)

Here’s a trip report I wrote on Anne and my travel business site that I’m including here too. – Tim “One of the best ships we have sailed on!” was our opinion after sailing on Holland America’s newest ship, the Nieuw Statendam, in the Western Caribbean in December 2019. While we enjoyed our last Holland America cruise Eurodam in 2017, the …