My beloved father Robert James Regan passed away this morning, 5/4/11.

The essays on this site stay as-is for the time being.

From my father's last column "The Lighter Side", March 30, 2011 for the
/Magnesium Monthly Review/ (http://www.metalworld.com/pub/mg_0005.html):

"You don't get many high-fives - if any at all - in higher economics.
Maybe a wave or two from Nicolai Kondratieff, who ...[held] that our economy
must collapse every 50 years or so.  The last on-time crash was 1929, [but]
the next one didn't show - unless you want to count the current debacle a
late arrival overdue 30 some years or so.

"What's that got to do with aluminum? ... In the lands of the shorter
business cycle, aluminum has entered a year which is seeing, in the early
stage at least, rising production and inventory - not to mention the 
unknowns of a debacle in Japan that has no precedent. ...

"The first quarter auto and family truck sales figures hit the streets
Saturday morning---and not without a few surprises.  For one thing, there
was no daunting from galloping gasoline prices when the numbers showed
March sales up 16.9 percent in the US/Canada market without any help from
Toyota. ..."


5/10: The middle section of my eulogy was to be---and will be---part of my
essay "Is There More of Me?" for Easter Sunday.