When people watch the Summer Olympics, a few events generally get the most attention. Gymnastics is a big draw as is swimming. Basketball can be, and many like track and field. But one event that causes many people to scratch their heads is the Steeplechase – a race that is usually about 2500 or 3000 …
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I love to teach, but like many who teach my least favorite part is grading. To make matters worse, I do not really believe in the value of quizzes and tests, so I rarely give them. That means that the majority of what I grade are multiple (and sometimes many) page papers. Even though I …
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Last weekend, Reverend Raphael Warnock, one of the newly senators elected from Georgia, tweeted the following: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves.” Now, I may not agree with Senator Warnock …
On February 2, 2020, something happened that I was unsure I would ever see in my lifetime. That is not to say that it had not happened before, but this event had only happened twice before. And one of those instances did not end as well as many had hoped. Having been 50 years since …
One of the joys many people have when they first see a newborn is to compare the features of the child to the parents. Does the child look more like the mother or the father? Of course, sometimes, the child does not look like either person, but instead looks like an uncle or an aunt. …
