Category Archives: Culture

GPS

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

In the third Indiana Jones movie, 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones comments that his friend Marcus Brody “gets lost in his own museum.” That bears an uncomfortable resemblance to me, although I have yet to get … Continue reading →

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Jury Duty

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

My wife and I are strange people. The year when two red and white envelopes arrived in the mail we were excited. One was addressed to my wife, one was addressed to me. Many people dread getting the summons in … Continue reading →

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Roger Williams

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

In the United States we often take our freedoms, such as the freedom of religion, for granted. What we experience in this country has existed but a brief moment in the overall history of the world. Prior to people like … Continue reading →

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Misinformed

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Last year it was reported, to the shock of many, that the astrological signs they imagined controlled their destinies were all wrong: in fact, they were about a month off. Those who had always thought they were a Libra suddenly … Continue reading →

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Memento Mori

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

A couple of years ago I ran across a video made by the Kodak Company back in the late 1920s. It was a test of their color film for moving pictures. The short movie consisted of children and a smiling … Continue reading →

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Commitment

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepherd rode a Redstone rocket on a short, fifteen minute hop into suborbital space, becoming the first American astronaut. He flew alone in a Mercury capsule. A few weeks later, on May 25, 1961, President … Continue reading →

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Growing Up

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

I am an odd person. Of course, that can probably be said of most human beings. We’re all peculiar in our own way. Upon surveying the gifts I had received on a Christmas morning, I not infrequently as a child … Continue reading →

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And They Lived Happily Ever After

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

My wife and I met while she was an undergraduate and I was a graduate student. Many of our dates were spent at Denny’s eating French fries and studying to all hours. Even when we went places, we tended to … Continue reading →

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What Defines Us

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

The news each day gives us a bothersome excursion into all the problems afflicting our community. We learn what is not going right in our nation’s capital. We are troubled by the failures in our institutions, the corruption, and the … Continue reading →

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Chronocentrism

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

We’ve probably all heard of “Eurocentrism” or “ethnocentrism,” the affliction of those who believe that the way things are in their own neighborhood must be the way things are everywhere. We talk to our neighbors and colleagues, our workmates, our … Continue reading →

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