You take your eyes off the calendar for a moment and find yourself with only a short count of days before 2019 comes to an end. This seems to be tr...

A friend asked me how I could have kept busy designing gears for so many years because; all of those needed were certainly designed by now. This co...

Who hasn’t imagined themselves on the deck of a magnificent sailing ship? (On the deck; only crazy people dream of risking life or limb up in the r...

  Few people enjoy cost estimating and pricing exercises. I have blogged about this topic before but thought it was worthy of another look ...

Sometimes the old family recipe needs updating… My husband’...

It was a real treat to spend a day at a gear shop this week. After all these years, I still enjoy watching a round blank get transformed into a gea...

Baby Boomers (as American kids born between 1946 and 1964 are called) learned a lot about World War II. From Pearl Harbor thru the atomic bomb drop...