RANTS

Soon after my older son began his PhD program, the word colleague appeared in his speech. Prior to this, he had had friends. If he didn’t feel the bond was close enough to refer to someone as a friend,...

While we look to the distant stars, speak of colonizing planets or their moons, we engage in these distant projections of ourselves—subconsciously or unconsciously—to avoid ourselves. That deliberate outward...

Over my lifetime, I have read many books. Few of them are still in my possession. Frequent moves, including three transatlantic ones, took its toll on the personal library. When I try to recall all the...

Consider for a moment the volume of written material you consume on a daily basis – the emails and text messages, articles and blogs, advertisements, news reports, maybe the odd book, maybe many. You feel...