Improving Our Time

Readers, As part of my own pruning and purging (see A Promise Lives Within You Now ) , I will soon be taking down my website, Improving Our Time. Due to several factors, I've decided this is the right time to transition away from such a public online presence. I still love sharing my thoughts and will continue to write inspiring commentary. However, I will not be maintaining an online blog site anymore. If my writings have added value to your life, please feel free to email m

I wholeheartedly recommend you explore the blog posts of an acquaintance of mine, William Wynne. I started reading due to his role as the...

I wanted a project to challenge me into the next level of my rocketry hobby by creating things I’d never seen before. I chose to bring to...

At the beginning of 2017, I decided I needed a long-term project to keep myself from being absorbed totally by work at the funeral home. I thought, "Don't just build another model airplane to hang on the wall. Build an airplane! Then, I happened to see this video, posted only a few days before having that thought: My Homebuilt Airplane | Pilot n' Plane The idea of a wooden airplane intrigued me, since it would basically require the same kind of building techniques as a large

Do you have a wobbly dining table like mine? It's got a single column, barely able to keep the top from breaking down and flipping onto...

As I've learned through an explosive experience in 2003, fuses are for fireworks. ( Not Quite a Dud ) We don't use fuses in model rocketry. We launch on command, at the end of a countdown, which can be paused at any point that something becomes unsafe, such as a gust of wind knocking over the rocket, perhaps pointing it toward the spectators, or because of a low flying aircraft approaching the flying field at the last second. The launch controller is the device that supplies