IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
Raising a toddler is an exercise in madness. It’s like going to war every day with a clinically insane enemy, losing to said enemy, and still being profoundly…
IN THE GRIP OF MODERNITY: THE VALUE OF HISTORY
Historian in-coming, as they say on social media reels: There never was a normal. That’s not what we want to hear, because we want to think there’s stasis,…
THE ACCIDENTAL ADVENTIST
“The world and everyone in it is passing strange, except for me and thee—and even thou art a little strange.” That was my grandfather, a teacher and historian,…
MY MOTHER’S ANXIOUS REFRAIN
“I don’t know what the world is coming to.” These are the words I sometimes heard from my mother when I was growing up after we had heard…
THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF NORMAL
“This changes everything.” Some forms of those words have been uttered countless times by people since creation when confronted with some mind-blowing development that redefined the known world.…
NOTHING IS LIKE IT WAS
I am now of an age that when I tell stories of my early years to younger parents, they look at me with a mixture of disbelief, and…