Danny Sullivan

My Fall Of The Berlin Wall Story

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Growing up as a Cold War kid in the 1970s, I was fascinated by Berlin. I’d read of the airlift, the city being divided then the construction of the Berlin Wall. I always wanted to visit the city. Little did I realize in the year that I did, the wall would actually come down. In […]

Of Racism, Prejudice & Discrimination

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When I was a senior in high school, I was fortunate enough to attend a leadership camp that taught me that we all have prejudices, but those prejudices don’t make us racists. There’s a huge gap between those two things that I fear gets terribly lost when discussions of race come up. The Tech Is […]

Ivar & The Circle Of Furniture Life

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Oh, Ivar. I welcome you back into my life. It’s been too long, my old friend. The smell of your freshly cut pine (are you pine?) once again fills my office nook. Your presence brings me nearly full circle through my life of home furnishing. I thought you were gone, but you return once again, […]

The Life In Space I Never Had

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When I was a boy, I thought I’d live in space. I believed this with such certainty that I had a resigned acceptance about the things I would be leaving behind. Things as in possessions, in particular the many spaceship models I’d built from kits. I’d look at them before getting ready for sleep, thinking […]

The Decline From “Best” To “Good Enough”

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We can’t fly as fast as we used to. Our music sounds worse than it did years ago. On a regular basis, I often can’t understand what people are saying on the telephone, something that never, ever happened when I was a kid. How did we get from having the best of things to things […]