A Cartoon Controversy The Mexican cartoon character, Memin Pinguin, is a faded, but fond, memory to most Mexicans, but gained notoriety recently […]

I’m always concerned about the overuse of labels. Far too often, the use of a label, to describe a person, or concept […]

Procrastination A few years ago, I thought of an idea for a novel. It has all of the essential ingredients for a […]

A KFC Innovation? I saw a puzzling billboard on the expressway today. It was an advertisement for a Kentucky Fried Chicken, located […]

Is This The Answer? This is the opening of my piece, entitled Nuking the Panama Canal. Today we will examine an environmental […]

And Facts Don’t Matter I’ve often believed that we are misled by political labels, and I’ve struggled to understand and articulate this […]

I read this sentence in a local paper, and I had to re-read it several times to understand what a township board […]

Environmentally Prudent? A vibrant ecosystem thrives along the coastline of the Great Lakes, below and above the waterline. More of this ecosystem […]

In The Oxymoron of Fast Food and Phone Jacks (or was it Phast Phood and Fone Jacks), I alluded to multitasking, and […]

And Acoustic Shadows As I walked the dogs late Wednesday night, I heard explosions. The sounds were continuous, coming from the southeast. […]