The young man knelt down on one knee by the track, picked up the flattened penny from the spot on the rail on which he had placed it half an…

If there were any one game I can’t get down, even halfway, it is golf. Golf as a topic of conversation with someone goes something like this: Them: “Do you…

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In 1966, several British adolescents were interviewed about their vision of the future (circa year 2000).…

“Malcolm was here.” Served me right. It was my first full year teaching. Malcolm was an eighth grader who was the most infamous student in the school (it was a…

I’ve met a stranger. As a matter of fact, anybody I come across whom I’ve never met and with whom I exchange “how-do-you-dos” is a stranger to me. At least…

The absence of geography courses in American elementary and secondary school curriculums these days is a concern. Yes, it is important for young people to know where places are in…