This is my first blog entry and I through I would start by talking about how I started writing for something other than my engineering work. The year was in the fall of 2005, the place was a room in the Crystal City Hyatt, VA. It was early in the evening after a day spent driving round trip south to Dahlgren, VA for meetings. I hadn’t communicated for a few days with my youngest daughter and I had seen an impressive display of trees lining the highway just before reaching Da