During my lifetime, there have been more doomsday predictions than I can count. Religious leaders, cult founders and politicians have been warning, “The end is near,” for as long as I’ve been around. I looked ’em up. Harold Camping had billboards, Marshall Applewhite had his ...
Q. I’m a first-year student in college. It’s the college I wanted but now I’m not so sure. I thought I was ready to be this far from home, but I miss my family. Honestly, I miss everything – my bedroom, my house, my cat, my friends. I even miss my high school, and I was so excited to ...
Q. I’m no longer a teen, but I have wonderful memories of you as my teacher. You taught us all so much, starting in middle school, when you empowered us to be comfortable with our changing selves, through senior year, when you facilitated a great game, you called “out of the bubble” that ...
Michael Podhorzer wants you to know that living in a state that values unions is healthier than living in one that doesn't. Writing at Weekend Read in April, Podhorzer said that "those living in states with so-called right-to-work laws, which makes it nearly impossible to organize ...
Last week’s column on artificial intelligence drew a lot of interest. Here are two responses. Q. As a teacher for over 30 years,10 at the college level, I struggle to find any glimmer of positive in the AI craze. I repeatedly told my students in the last years to write their own papers; when ...
My high school band director (who quit and became a priest) had just been discharged from the Army. He lived by the motto: “If you aren’t at least 15 minutes early, you are late.” I can remember him standing at the door, and if you arrived late, you got paddled. Up until the mid-70’s, ...
