Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

So one of our contractors was moving on to a new position.  It was toward the end of the day, and I saw him getting ready to leave the b...

Just wanted to share this awesome photo that my beautiful daughter, Michelle, took this last week.  I love how it vividly captures the F...

Really liked this picture that my daughter, Rebecca, showed me in Vogue Paris. The lady has this amazing tattoo around her eyes. The w...

Often in life, I hear people say how if only in life things could've been different.  Then they could've been happy...successful...

So no one is perfect. And no matter how outwardly pious the person, everyone inwardly has some hidden (or not so) vice or excess that th...

This was a funny sign up in Harpers Ferry yesterday, Thanksgiving Day.  Outside this restaurant, it says, "Only OPEN Place in Town,...

So we rolled the dice this Thanksgiving vacation and came up sort of empty. We were supposed to go to Las Vegas, but then there is ISIS ...

So a friend told me yesterday something interesting about the passing of time.  We were looking back and saying how quickly it all goes....

Over 7 long years, the promise of "hope and change" has given way instead to the disappointment of chaos and dysfunction. Just...

In the  recent wave of terror attacks in Israel , in less than 3 months (Oct 1- Nov 23), there have been: - 21 Murdered  - 184 Wounded...

Today, a disabled man asked the lifeguard at the pool, "How are you doing?" The lifeguard couldn't understand or fully hea...

Today, Rabbi Haim Ovadia gave an interesting speech at Magen David Synagogue about the life of Jacob and his relationships to stones.  H...

In school, we had one teacher who always used to say, "You've got to call a spade a spade." Another used to tell us, ...

It's the old saying, "Is the glass half empty or half full?" You can be a positive Peter or a negative Nellie.  Your cho...

So not that anyone was so thrilled with the Syria and Iraq refugee idea post 9/11 to begin with... But now 31 States have come straight...

When presidential candidate, Donald Trump said, " I will build a big beautiful safe zone in Syria for the refugees "--many on th...

No this isn't my car, but it's definitely old.  So we were going to go sell one of our older cars tonight.  One of the warning...

Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal today writes compellingly about how tolerance for terror (or what he calls tolerance for i...

So after lunch out, we went for a little hike at Lake Needwood.  Today was absolutely beautiful. The sun was shining bright and emanat...

There over 200 land disputes around the globe , but on Wednesday , the European Union singled out the one Jewish State of Israel and tar...

  I never quite understood the best buds t-shirt wave. This is especially the case when the person is alone and there is no best bud any...

While Dossy was getting a haircut today, Minna and I went into the Hobby Store. We wound up Larry The Lobster here and let him go wild.  ...

So I went to the Podiatrist today for some routine maintenance.  This was a new doctor for me, and I was going in with a healthy dose of...

The U.S. National Debt often touted at an enormous $18 trillion is really more than 3 times that amount and closer to a whopping  $65 tril...

This adjustable computer desk stand from Veridesk for sitting and standing is awesome.  Someone got this in the office, and it is the ta...

So the Rabbi's wife told us a neat idea about dreams (which was very poetic in Hebrew).  Basically it goes like this: "If you...

Remember in the old Western's when the Indians were about to attack the town, and before they rode in with knives and flaming arrows--...

So in synagogue today, the Rabbi introduced this very old man to the pulpit to say a few words.  Apparently, he was one of the founders ...