I won’t tell you the name of this northeastern urban hotel. It doesn’t matter. It’s early morning, the lights from the parking lot leak through the drawn shade, casting a false luminescence about the room. I am always up before dawn, even when away from home. Coffee, in the lobby, my singular objective as IContinue reading “We are all waiting”
Author Archives: Joseph Del Rio
Door County Wisconsin
Door County Wisconsin We should have been deep in fall up here, this spit of land north of Green Bay, Wisconsin, this long fingered peninsula jutting out into expanse of Lake Michigan. Cornfields not yet harvested are a golden sea and their leaves crackle against each other in the breeze. The summer heat lingers stillContinue reading “Door County Wisconsin”
Know Your Shit
My still working friends often ask me “so how do you keep busy now that you are retired?” The question really is a cascade of unspoken questions “are you bored, do you miss your career, how are you doing on your bucket list, do you even have a bucket list, you are not suicidal yet,Continue reading “Know Your Shit”
The BonFire
New England in the fall is bucolic. Every picture one snaps of a lake or from a mountain top or the display of the changing colors or wildlife in their natural environment is a visual Robert Frost poem. I shared my visions of a time well spent with my family and friends. However there wasContinue reading “The BonFire”
Saturday Night at the Grill
Preface Up in Groveland CA. not far from Yosemite National Park there is a little community called Pine Mountain Lake. It is an unlikely sort of place for the area, Groveland being the quintessential gold mine town from the 1850s. Groveland itself has gone through several cycles of boom and bust; a couple of goldContinue reading “Saturday Night at the Grill”
Lane Lines and the Mission of LinkedIn
According to LinkedIn the mission of LinkedIn and why we should participate on its platform is simple: “connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.” The LinkedIn vision for how productivity and success is measured is simple as well: “Create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.” – https://about.linkedin.com. ItContinue reading “Lane Lines and the Mission of LinkedIn”
The Legend of Zorro
I have added a new short story about the Legend of Zorro. Let me know what you think. Fault Lines and the Legend of Zorro
Climate Change
Donna and I ventured out to one of our old haunts, an old-school family-owned Italian restaurant that has catered to generations of locals. A place where customer names are known as well as all the names of their kids. Where menus are looked at, but the waiter already knows what you want. It feels likeContinue reading “Climate Change”
New ship in port
I have previously posted stories of the “Sovereign of the Seas” a clipper ship model scratch built by my father back in the 1950’s. I retrieved it while cleaning out his garage after his passing. All that remained intact by 1996 was the hull and three broken mast stems. Everything else was in plastic bagsContinue reading “New ship in port”
Second acts and new adventures
If life is indeed a stage, as Shakespeare famously wrote, then there needs to be more than just one act. I like building things. Over the years I have been a carpenter, a computer design engineer, a marketeer of microchips of incredible complexity. There is a creativity involved beyond the mechanics of construction or theContinue reading “Second acts and new adventures”
Let Me Tell You a Story 