The starting pitcher for the winning team in game 1 of the baseball World Series was accused after the contest of doctoring the ball using V...

My occasional blog series "Observations" was created to be an outlet to share a variety of topics that pop into my field of view ...

Sometimes I can be a nasty, prejudiced, small-minded so-and-so. I see someone, make a snap assessment, and apply my opinion-laced first impr...

A few years ago I wrote a post entitled Chalk Dust about an experience that I had with some former university students of mine. Basically t...

The final novel in the "Rabbit Angstrom" tetralogy by John Updike, entitled Rabbit at Rest , was published in 1990. As was the ca...

My occasional blog series "Observations" was created to be an outlet to share a variety of topics that pop into my field of view ...

The paintings of Norman Rockwell are held by many as the quintessential reflection of American culture. Just the artist's name invokes i...