There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The read more

There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The wood composite business continues to do well for us.

I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his read more

I had a late supper one evening with Frank and Treat Williams... Treat took us for a trip in his plane around the Manhattan skyline, an incredible, somehow touching sight. I wonder why?... We passed so close to the World Trade Center buildings that we could see the diners innocently enjoying themselves in the restaurant. In the late-20th century, it's impossible not to see the whole great heart of the city as vulnerable, exposed to attack.

They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer,

They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer,

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the read more

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the read more

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term.

It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term.

Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games.

Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games.

Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.

Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.