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,...

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...

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...

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...

Out Like a Lamb Gore Vidal once said that since it is power, not sex, that is the true motor to human life, young people no longer...

The Ides of March My father once told me he didn’t know how a boy became a man without the experience of combat. I’m sure he never wished...

Guest Blog. This essay was written by a recent student-friend, as he explores one of those areas by which we establish meaning in our...

We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...

I suppose I have been interested in metaphor and other tropes since I went to a conference on “Metaphor and Thought” back when I was in...

Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...