‘Tis the season for graduations. My oldest daughter graduated from college last month. My youngest daughter will graduate from 8th grade this morning, which means
I have a case (and several shoe boxes) filled with music cassettes from my high school and college days. There’s one cassette in particular that
Andy Fletcher, a founding member of Depeche Mode, died in late May at age 60. First came the shock that he died, then came the
Erik Weihenmayer, the adventurer and first blind person to summit Mount Everest, was this year’s Commencement Speaker at the University of Vermont. His talk was
“It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity — it’s inhumanity.”
I almost made it. While my son was taking his machine learning final exam at Cornell, I decided to cycle around Cayuga Lake. It was
