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Elementary School Aspirations, 1926
I found the following list in in The Art of Manliness , a publication I rarely read, but have respect for, and not just because their...
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How Do You Decide What to Write?
"How do you decide what to write?" I know that other writers have been asked this and similar questions, and I don't speak for anyone...
The Power of a Hug
This research comes from Carnegie Mellon University , so it must be good, right? In these days, as the cracks in our system...
Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025
Tom Lehrer didn't quite make it to his 100th birthday, and I'm sure he could have written a song about that. I discovered him when I...
The Solution to Hydrocarbon Pollution Is Oil Production?
It began as a student project by Professor Jamie Rector's class at the University of California, Berkeley. They wanted to investigate...
Lab-Grown Meat
Here's an interesting look at attempts to replace farms and ranches with industrial food production facilities . I'm not...
Honor - Tradition - Optimism - Challenge
Here's another Imprimis article I enjoyed , Victor Davis Hanson's 2025 commencement address for Hillsdale College. Some...
Morse-Lewis-Endeavour Music
Many years ago, when Inspector Morse first aired on PBS, we watched several episodes, and have since enjoyed the whole...
A Leader Like That
It's time to bring back a post from eight years ago, which I called Leadership . It was inspired by the funeral of a man I wish...
Now THAT Is a Shower!
There are a lot of things about the good ol' days that I don't miss—smoking on airplanes is at the top of the list—but...
Angels - Comfort or Terror?
I'm inclined to believe that any comfort angels have to offer comes after the terror part. And that's probably a good thing.
Racism, Sexism, or Autism?
At Heather's suggestion, I am now reading Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who...
The News We've Been Waiting For
So much of Grace's story is about waiting for news. This time, it was for the results of an all-day assessment at Dartmouth last...
My Biggest Fan?
The article is a mix of humor and serious commentary. It uses satire to make a broader point about constitutional literacy and the...
Tiny Tim's Tropical Sunshine Punch
For another of the numerous projects that overflow my cup of time, I was perusing my post of almost a decade ago, A Dickens of a...
What Part of Commander-in-Chief...
Based on the last time I read through our Constitution, I'd say the Babylon Bee is spot on here: Democrats Outraged After...
Babies Are Linguistic Geniuses
The RobWords YouTube channel is often interesting, but this one will resonate strongly with some of my readers, who have long known...
Copilot Analyzes My Tolkien-Sanderson Post
Before I published When We Feel the Darkness Closing In , I asked Copilot to analyze it. Not to analyze the writer's character, or...
AI Character Analysis from Writing
For my next AI Adventure, I was inspired by another idea from my AI workshop, which was to ask an AI to write about something as if the...
AI Adventures
I recently listened to a workshop on Artificial Intelligence. It was primarily designed for kids and teens, but I figured it was...
Great News for Grace!
I know many have been waiting on tenterhooks for the results of Grace's recent testing , as have we. Sometimes good things come to he...
When We Feel the Darkness Closing In
As I near the end of Wind and Truth , Brandon Sanderson's 1344-page final book in the first half of his epic Stormlight Archive...
Sportsmanship
When I was young, stories for children about sports had one theme in common: sportsmanship. In fact, that was the main reason given for...
I'd Love to See What the Team of Mike Wimmer and Elon...
Mike Wimmer is 16 years old, loves cars and video games, recently earned his PhD, started doing contract work for the United States...
When I Consider the Heavens
Here in Central Florida there is so much light around us that we never see the stars as I remember them, often just a handful of the...