4 Quarters, 10 Dimes

You don’t realize how small a hockey rink is until you’re there. It looks bigger on television. Last night Kim and I went up to Madison to ...

I’m taking today off, as it is my last chance to do that before the semester heats up in earnest. My advising job is 80%, so in theory I ca...

I suspect I’m doomed. Well, that's probably a bit melodramatic. But there is a definite sense of “this isn’t going to end well and ther...

1. One of the many joys of wrapping up my mother’s estate is that the rules for doing so are written for much broader cases than my own spec...

I remember this moment.   It’s probably around 1974 in this photo, give or take a year. We’re in the dining room of the house I grew up i...

One of the benefits of reading science fiction and fantasy novels is that they teach you to accept as reality whatever is presented to you a...

Every so often Ancestry.com will send me hints about possible relatives. In general I find that these hints fall into one of two categories....