Twenty-tour months into the two-week pandemic, joy persists in numerous respects, despite the frigid (-14 degrees) weather of the day The...

Jnaury 2022. As we drag on well into the third year of Fauci follies, it remains a good exercise to pay attention to the good things in...

A report from the national association of college admissions and financial aid officers urgently specifies an alternative to academic...

January 10, 2022. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor -- the self-proclaimed "wise Latina woman" -- grossly misstated if not purposely lied...

Eight years ago, Bill DiBlasio entered the New York City governor's office, buoyed by support for his extremely progressive economic and...

If you think that graduate school will help you dig out of the hole of debt from your undergraduate degree, think again. And don't think...

Building on the literature of materialism and compulsive buying, de Graaf, Wann & Naylor (2005) coined the term “affluenza” to describe...

A second late afternoon traipse through the bitter cold led to a quiet night, waiting for Jane and Dena to return from Portugal. About...

Universities rely on alumnae for a significant part of their comparative advantage. Without outside funds, a lot of boutique, scholarship...

"Regrets, I've had a few, sang Frank Sinatra with "My Way". Unlike Frank, although I have had few regrets, I have had enough to mention....

Watching Penn State host Michigan on a chilly day in State College, an even chillier day in Harrison. State struggling but hanging in...

These past eighteen months have produced an impressive range of disconcerting dreams, dreams that leave me groggy and often depressed...

If you think life is difficult, challenging or endangered now, just look at the seventeenth century, the "general crisis of mankind."...

A short review of my core beliefs: I believe in Jesus Christ, in my need to make a positive, prosocial impact, and life after death in...

Fall flew in last week. After a gorgeous interlude of late summer-like weather, Wisconsin October crept in more like a crouching tiger...

Picture from Ed's Army Air Force flying days, 1944-45. The speech that follows is from his commencement address to his East Deer...

My personal history with England goes back more than fifty years, and it started with Ed, a navigator in a B-29 in the Eighth Air Force,...

Why scientific consensus is an oxymoron. If it's science, it's not consensus. If it's consensus it's not science. Critical thinking...

What I remember, love, appreciate about my dad and the family homestead at 3158 east Church Street in Eden. Ed Lorenzi did not have an...

Gaby graduates from UCLA, June 2021. "My" cost of college refers to the fact that I was able to pay for my own college -- nine years in...