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Not long ago, I overheard two seasoned flight attendants talk about flying into Houston, Texas,…

Probably by most Westerners’ reckoning, the institution of marriage has changed dramatically from what it…

I begin each class session by telling students that I am glad to see them.…

Anyone working in a healthcare-related field or maybe just anyone who knows a teenager or…

I have an image pinned to the noticeboard by my desk that resulted from a…

Three weeks ago, my mother lost consciousness following a medical emergency, and she remains in…

Despite working with college students well beyond Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour “mastery” threshold and being a…

Moving from Invisible to Visible In 1989, shortly after our wedding I was hospitalized and…

One of the significant changes to come out of the COVID pandemic was the increased…

I did not plan to start a career in in public libraries. In fact, when…

In the mythology of modern art, there are a few old chestnuts that get repeated…

Reticence is not much of western virtue. In Shakespeare's King Lear, the words of Edgar,…

“Would I be doing this if I was not an assistant professor trying to get…

This past year I enjoyed two extended visits with an old high school friend who…

I once had a young, female assistant professor come to me with a question. One…

Not far from our home in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is one of southern Ontario's premier…

Strangers and Scapegoats is the culmination of some 20 years of my learning to think…

For months now, the governors of Texas, Arizona, and Florida have been bussing immigrants east…

“It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is…