Tonight will mark three years since I lost my mother, Patricia Herzberg, to lung cancer and Covid. Below I post a poem that I wrote...

On September 26th, 1918, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive began. The largest offensive in U.S. military history, the 47-day campaign lasted...

I’ve always believed that it’s important to encourage your children’s interests, though to temper them with a gentle dose of reality. We...

Her name was Ellen Clarke. Ellen was a Child and Youth Studies student of mine at OSU’s Marion Campus, and she was also the niece of one...

My dad with Archie Griffin the night he learned he'd won his Second Heisman Today marks five years since my father’s passing. I think...

I remember the first time I attended a meeting with a public school superintendent, almost three decades ago. I was a first-year...

September is Recovery Month. It’s also the month, five years ago, when I lost my father. But there’s a story in this coincidence that I...

Tomorrow, September 3, marks 127 years since the birth of one of our country’s most important and, unfortunately, most overlooked civil...

The other day my wife, Abbi, came home from work and immediately started cooking. In a matter of minutes, the crock pot was going and...

Three cosmic events took place in the summer of 1969: the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and my entry into...

Being honest with students requires both accuracy and respect I began teaching high school Language Arts in the fall of 1993, so this...

Every July, because we can’t find a hotter month, my neighborhood organizes a community garage sale. About twenty or thirty houses...

I love summer. I’ve always loved summer. When I was a kid, on the first day of summer, and for most of the days after that, my friends...

People change, grow, and forgive I will try to provide enough caveats for this story to avoid being misunderstood. I detest sexual...

Discussions about the facts of life can lead to awkward, and humorous, misunderstandings A lot of parents observe that their children’s...

“Be humble, be hungry, and always be the hardest worker in the room.” - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson I joined a new gym a few weeks back. ...

Drive a few feet on someone else's tires “Hey Jackass! You just cut in front of everybody!” As I sat in the drive-through line waiting...

Social commentary through narrative, wit, and a little bit of attitude. Welcome to my blog, named in part because I currently reside in...