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…
Few things in life are more refreshing than the beginning of a new year, or a new semester of school, for that matter. Returning to classes after a miserable three-week…
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…
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…
As defined by Merriam-Webster, a creeper is “a person or thing that creeps.”Well, it’s also defined as a one-piece garment for a child at the crawling age, but that’s not…
Some 20 years ago, I told my college sophomore son, “America is a privileged nation.” He countered, “I disagree.” And I rejoined, “Son, that’s the privilege.” Since then, and in…