November 10, 2019. A 3:48 finish for our Bruin, on a beautiful course, with a great running partner and support team. Checking in our...

Measuring the miles with Strava, three weeks into Harrison adventure. On my way to walking the distance of Baltimore to UCALA -- and...

Starting our journey in Wisconsin also means starting a new walking routine, new routes, new roads, new paths, and more. Two weeks into...

We took final ownership of Touchdown Drive one week ago. It has been a hectic seven days. As I had noted to Dena before the move, as...

What is wrong with American higher education today? Where did it go wrong. Victor Davis Hanson has some useful thoughts on the subject...

To the best of my memory, this picture was taken at Toftrees, a semi-resort near Penn State, taken after my last lunch in State College...

Cranes and other wildlife in our backyard, with a farm building in the distance, on the property of the owner of this soybean field as...

Gaby started her data analytics cybersecurity work today. It is a strange feeling, to see the three women of my family head off to work...

For many of my years at Loyola I was an active if not leading participant in the regular open houses offered to prospective applicants to...

Not in a class and not really a final lecture, but my final opportunity to make remarks to the university community -- including the...

Pictures of progress on Touchdown Drive!

Forty-one years ago I purchased my first home in Lawrence, Kansas. Paige and Ed provided the down payment. I furnished the living room...

Retirement -- the process, not the event -- continues. Construction on our new home started Monday and we hope to move there by late...

This is the model home we saw on our first house search trip to Appleton in April 2019. And we chose it as the model for our own home. We...

I may have at one time imagined that retirement would mean a definitive, clear finality of a career followed by a new, different and...

Been doing a lot of walking of late. Sometimes as many as four miles. Over fifteen miles a week. It is often difficult to convince myself...

Attended my retirement luncheon yesterday, with President Linnane and several colleagues from Arts & Sciences, followed by a reception...

Strava let me down. Either that or I pressed the wrong key. Here's the story: A little over a mile into my Sunday walk I realized that...

Tomorrow starts the clock on the one hundred day countdown to retirement from Loyola and fifty days until my last exam...after fifty...

It's official. Turned in my papers five days ago. Slept better these past four nights than I have in ages. Looking forward to the next...