You don’t have to travel far to find children in need. Most of us legitimately and wholeheartedly want to help those who need it, and if we knew of someone…
Ihave written in this column before about my late-in-life conversion to basketball mania. As the son and brother of high school athletes, I was blessed with all of the leftover…
With final projects and exams soon upon us, please allow me a brief end-of-the-semester pep talk, by way of an anecdote from my childhood. When I was in the fifth…
From preschool through seventh-grade, I was home-schooled. I have eight siblings. Put those two things together, and you have a group of overly energized children coming up with the most…
In 1878, then-congressman John G. Carlisle, a Democrat from Kentucky, billed the contention between moneylenders protecting the gold standard and their blue-collar borrowers promoting a bimetallic system as a dispute…
Iam a writer. But this is not how I usually write. Normally, I write fiction, using my words to form pretty pictures, developing images with things like alliteration and personification…
My friends and family are currently on the verge of killing me. After returning from a summer spent in Italy, I don’t think more than three hours goes by each…
If I ruled the world, I would abolish Black Friday. I would also pull a Cindy Lou Who by mandating that the entire world hold hands around a giant Christmas…
If I ruled the world, customer service would have a whole different meaning. In my world, the customers would serve the workers. Now, I am not meaning customers would serve…
As Thanksgiving break quickly approaches I think of all the homework, tests and projects I have to get done before the holiday arrives. But more than that, I look forward…