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Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio. Krispy Kreme, Starbucks, Max & Erma’s. Eat ‘n Park, King’s, Hoss’ – what do they all have in common? They ...

hills and highways 

But once outside, I cannot go anywhere without feeling that I am going to get run down from all directions. There is nowhere to walk. Since ...

...and t-shirts too, with pictures of juicy hamburgers... 

I head back to the room with the view of the Turnpike and hills. Sometimes the walk isn’t worth the effort.

Now that Larry Summers opened the door for the possibility of evaluating innate ability based on scientific knowledge gained from observing ...

I have been going to Pittsburgh just about every year since 1976 (a little less frequently in recent years). The city has transformed itself...

One could, I suppose, draw great symbolism from this, but I haven't quite figured out what it is. As I was booking my return flight to M...

That this week has tested the “difficult” to “impossible” continuum is an understatement. That I am unscathed toward its end is attributable...

(bold emphases are my own) An Old Man’s Winter Night All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in sepa...

I am at the gym. I have the usual props: cell phone, book, earphones. Some combination of the above keeps me from focusing on the boring rep...

Sorry, Ocean readers, but a somber note is in order. Today marks the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of Oswiecim (Auschwitz). Vice Pr...

5:30 Wednesday : seminar ends. 8:00 Wednesday : make my way home, scramble eggs . 8:30 Wednesday : make a whole batch of calls that neede...

Another night of work, another night of trying to concentrate while my mind wanders. This time it keeps heading back to the topic of food: g...

I’ve heard many a complaint about the difficulties of pushing forward with research projects. One recent blogger sadly admits that even afte...

It started before I tuned in to the presidential press conference this morning, I swear! Yes, stress does do that to a person’s eye, yes, I’...

It may have been the moon, it may have been the demands of the workplace, but all last night I was buoyed by emails from blogger friends who...

every hour a "you got mail" 

Why do I think that the night was especially difficult only for bloggers? Because I know for a fact that film stars, for example, had no tro...

Here are things running through my head as I work my way through the night: 1. Lots of airline tickets (in this way I would beef up my fr...