Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Chris Rock are unlikely role models of male leadership that have suddenly blossomed in front of our very eyes on the world...
There’s a 200-pound dinosaur in my house. It is 4 feet long and 2½ feet high. It’s made out of metal pieces welded together by a student of mine in...
Some folks think a monument is a big stone with a name on it but I have a monument which is made entirely out of wood and has no name on it at all...
I really want to believe in an America capable of setting a goal — even a fantastic one like a man on the moon — and organizing a methodical step...
Neil Young won my heart. Twice. The first time was 52 years ago when, only 17 days after the Kent State shootings, he composed Ohio which became an...
Who is more important? A brain surgeon or an auto mechanic? Every year I would ask that question to my 11th grade English classes and I always got...
Long before I was a high school English teacher, I may have been a drug trafficker.The National Geographic TV show How to Catch a Smuggler first...
On the first Saturday of December I spent eight hours on a gurney in the emergency room at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center wired to equipment...
For the many months of pandemic isolation last year I felt a camaraderie with strangers that is evaporating now.On the phone I would wait patiently...
How do you offer someone a living gift that is 28 feet tall and probably weighs more 2,000 pounds? And if they accept the gift, how do you tell...
I’m lucky to live in Vermont, the first state in the nation to achieve an 80% COVID-19 vaccination rate. The odds look good.After our unexpected 15...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic and our nationwide shutdown, the topic of loneliness was a bummer, guaranteed to freeze out any conversation...