This is my father. Handsome. Brilliant. Creative. Successful as both a violinist, a symphony conductor, a dean and college administrator who “invented” the concept of the Creative Arts Center in American Universities, and raised the money and the bricks and mortar for the Creative Arts[..]

This has been a tough week. Suicides, a bully POTUS, world events that assault from all sides. Some wise people suggest that the only way to get through it is to turn off the television, stay off social media altogether, light some candles, and withdraw[..]

My third novel, THE WORLD CAME TO US. Today, I celebrate!

It is closing in on ninety degrees today, with humidity of ten thousand per cent. Normal for Ohio in the world of global warming that Scott Pruitt claims to be fake news. However, Pruitt is not the theme of this post. I just had to[..]

Is this a Bird or a bug?

There are quite a few things that in my view are ill-advised, all around terrible ideas, and I cannot imagine why these things ever caught on. So I grabbed a pencil and made a NOPE list of stuff that should just have never been invented:[..]

I read an article that gave explicit instructions on how to “deep clean” one’s house. It didn’t go into the exact reasons why this is even necessary, but it laid out in great detail what a person must do in order to consider their dwelling[..]

Usain Bolt. He had to be the fastest man, didn’t he? His name. Nominative determinism is the term for the fact that people are drawn to professions that match their names. This is something that has been studied since the early Twentieth Century. Lawyers named “Sue.”[..]

Thank goodness I got sick AFTER vacation.