March 2026

When the sweet tooth has cravings, the heart wants what the heart wants. Mr. Sanders has a wicked sweet tooth, and yet he is slim and slyph-like. I, perversely, tend to eschew sweets, yet I am the family Butterball here. Life is not fair. Mr. Sanders had a birthday in Read more

It’s a tale worth telling, an eye-opener, a wake-up call.  Many of us have such a tale, in one form or another.  This one is mine. The story starts around a campfire, in the snow, where my best pals of prep school and I, now some 50-odd years later, gather Read more

  Physicists tell us that we can’t travel through time. In contrast, information – and even wisdom – can travel through time, and in both directions. The Age of Enlightenment brought a revolution in science and it changed the way we viewed the past. Rocks and the fossils in them Read more

President Trump is now experiencing the blowback from showering his political adversaries (real or perceived), national and international, with invective. When you lead your nation in war, you need support from the widest possible majority. Allies are crucial as war’s path is unpredictable.  A war that is divisive at home Read more

The Academy Art Museum will host its Annual Spring Celebration on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at 6 p.m. This year’s theme, Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Night, ties into the museum’s recent exhibit, Rauschenberg 100: New Connections, honoring the artist’s ability to transform everyday materials into works of art. Inspired by this Read more