Gravity & Flight
21 July 2022 Talk about a pregnant moment, gravid with significance. Two years ago, on this day in the early months of a worldwide...
COVID Blues and the Value of Sadness
15 October 2021 The worldwide Pandemic, with the evolution of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19, and others, has, at least...
Giving Up the Ghost: The Gift of Mortality
15 May 2021 “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -- Mae West I am 67 years old, the same age my father died,...
The Hammer of God: Mortality Salience under COVID-19
In 1974, Ernest Becker wrote The Denial of Death, a wonderful piece of psychology. While one of the characteristics unique to human...
Sex and the Commons III -- Stunted Intimacy
Love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even in its most fleshly. – Thomas Mann, Magic...
Sex and The Commons II: Uncommon Sex
In this three-part series, I wanted to reflect on the relationship between the erosion of our discourse on the Common Good and our most...
Sex and The Commons I: The Erosion of the Common Good
I taught college for most of four decades, and it just seems to me that these sentiments have become alien to citizens of a nation for...
Living on Tulsa Time II: From Groves of Academe to Open Plain
A nearby colleague, Phil Cary of Eastern University, in a recruitment video for his institution, said something powerful about a liberal...
Living on Tulsa Time I: Down from the Ivory Tower
An old college chum sent me an article called “Storm Clouds over Tulsa," written by Jacob Howland at the end of April 2019. It got me...
Square Ball in a Round Hole
To distract my toddler one morning when my wife was trying to get him into the car, I picked up the cardboard container from some wine...