Last week, my university held a commencement ceremony for graduating seniors. For days before and after the event, the neighborhood swelled with the students’ family and friends. You could see dads and moms strolling down the sidewalk, into and out … Continue reading Those Were the Days
Movie star and recording artist Doris Day died this week at the age of 97. For some reason, she had been on my mind for a while and I happened to watch a movie of hers recently on YouTube that … Continue reading The Other D-Day
I spend a lot of time with undergraduates. I teach them, study with them, ride the university van with them, and even workout with them. So, I can’t help but overhear their conversations. I can tell you that being older … Continue reading What Your Kids Talk About
“A woman walks by a pharmacy, sticks her head in the front door, and asks the pharmacist, ‘Have you got cotton balls?’” So begins another recent submission to the dad joke collection that began on March 31 this year with … Continue reading “Have You Got Cotton Balls?”
I don’t want to brag, but I have a lot of bright ideas. For instance, standing on a checkout line at my grocery store the other day, I thought of a great marketing gimmick: tell people that whatever they can … Continue reading A Dime a Dozen
In a February 19, 2017 article in The New Yorker, “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds,” Elizabeth Kolbert laid out the reason most people are stupid. I assume I don’t have to argue this. Anyone older than seven knows this … Continue reading Why People Are Stupid
Today is Palm Sunday. Last year, I celebrated it in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. A French Jesuit led a small group of us in the liturgy. I still have the fronds that we had taken from a savanna palm tree … Continue reading Palm Sunday
