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On the one hand, old dogs have a hard time with new tricks, on the other, if they’re of a playful disposition, then sometimes they can surpr...

Eight years is a very very long time. September 11th eight years ago, for me, like for all Americans, was a milestone. We expected a differe...

I think Wisconsinites would do well in… California. We take to good weather like fish to water. During a long stretch of beautiful sunshine ...

People behave irrationally. There, I’ve said it! We are not nearly as logical and sane in our actions as we pretend. I’m impulsive, I know t...

You should know that this semester, Tuesday will be a posting challenge. I am out, teaching, then again teaching, and finally, in the evenin...

From farming machines on Saturday, to working people on Monday. From free time (can’t remember, when was that? Oh, that! That was illicit fr...

Here’s an interesting phenomenon: as you get older, days spin forward like mad and then, so that you can make sense of it all, they all land...

I want out. It’s a long week-end and I don’t want to lose it all to days that, when I’m working, look remarkably the same. The academic year...

I admit it -- I have slacked. Or, more accurately, I fell asleep at the keyboard. Will you accept my apologies? I could tell you that it was...

Maybe because it is September 3rd (the day I, once long ago, got married), maybe because I yet again began a semester teaching the law of ma...

I think everyone has a category of missing information: things any normal person in their range would know, should know. And yet – there you...

Throughout my entire Polish childhood, September 1st was perhaps the most consequential calendar date of the year. August 31st was quickly f...

I know, I know. Move on. No reason to mope. It’s a beautiful day out there. (remember the first time I took the bike out in April? The trail...