Lorenzo at the helm of a square-rigged ship circa 1965 I've always been intrigued by whales, even more so after reading Moby Dick in high school. Then I signed on a three masted barque that was rigged

A few of the books that I keep in my office. I never met my great uncle Warren, but indirectly he had a significant influence on my life. Uncle Warren owned and operated a farm in Huntley, Illinois, not

The photo above is of the globe that I built for a 1957 science fair. Emotions are what bring back the clearest memories. Just now I saw a photo that included a 1957 Chevy, and instantly I was back standing

The above photo is of me serving as an altar boy at the Layden wedding - circa 1955. One of the most famous of all Notre Dame stories begins: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen

The photo above was taken from my Uncle Ed's farm in the 1920s. Saint Boniface Church and school in the distance. I first drove a car on a visit to Uncle Ed's farm when I was still in grade school. Before

I took the above photo in 1967 while on board a Swift Boat off the coast of Viet Nam. While almost everyone involved in it hated the American War in Viet Nam, it is not uncommon to hear, or say, "I

My first engineering job out of college was with ITE Circuit Breaker Co. I designed motor control centers for industrial purposes. The work involved taking the specs for the job's motors and designing

Kub's is what we called Kubiak's Bar in South Bend. During our junior year at Notre Dame we discovered that Kub didn't check I.D.s. During our senior year we held a party there for Dan Brosnan's 21st birthday.

[I took the above photo when I rented that corner suite at the Royal Sonesta for a weekend party in New Orleans.] Pete Fountain died last week. I can still remember his appearances on our old black and

[Photo: Lorenzo off the coast of Viet Nam, 1967] Here in the States, there is a National Holiday called Veteran's Day, and it is held in honor of the six percent of our population who are military veterans.

The following was the first sentence from a recent article in INC Magazine: "Elon Musk thinks it's almost certain that we're living in some version of The Matrix. In fact, he believes that there's

I just read an article (linked below) about something that took place 500 years ago today. And to be honest, I'm a little surprised that it didn't make bigger news. After all, 500 years is a long time,

[NOTE: I took the above photo in 1968. It is of my young son and my wife who was pushing a stroller with our infant daughter in it during a stroll in Muir Woods, just north of San Francisco.] Many and

Did you know that a couple of weeks after Dr. Timothy Leary first said, "Turn on. Tune in. And drop out," that he agreed with a few of his friends that instead he should have said, "Drop

While serving with the U.S. Navy in 1969, I was fortunate to have been able to do a little sightseeing on the Azores. Our ship was part of the operations unit conducting observations of the sunken submarine

A story by Lorenzo Hagerty Link to Part 1 Then he began to tell me what he was thinking, and it went something like this. He had been thinking about the men who labored in this quarry a hundred years ago.

A story by Lorenzo Hagerty I sensed his presence for over a week. It wasn't as if he was actually stalking me, it was more like he just wanted to be nearby in case I needed to talk. Although it had been

From a technological standpoint, there have been some massive changes that have taken place during my life, but just to be clear, airplanes had already been invented by the time I was born. That balloon

That is a picture of the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) that I took 50 years ago yesterday, which would make it October 3, 1967. I took the picture shortly before we came alongside her to refuel, unrep we called

That is a photo of Geronimo. Did you know that his name means "the one who yawns"? Now that I know that, I'll think of him whenever I yawn. Geronimo was an Apache, which draws me even closer