Earthrise and evening meal, and three years of multiple daily viewings had not made it any less breathtaking. He lingered a moment, then...

She bent forward, ballerina-like, easily grabbing the toes of her left foot, propped on the back of the couch. She held the position for...

“From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time - 2 o'clock Eastern Standard...

Noise and bright light jolt me, followed all too quickly by a stale, vaguely rancid odor. I’m sitting alone at a cafeteria table, and...

Homo sapiens is the most social of species. Not only do we not live in isolation, as so many creatures of the earth do, we fine-tune our...

The digital clock next to the luxurious king-size bed glowed a neon-blue 6:37 – eight minutes before she’d set it to go off, but she was...

He could see the evening moon through the branches above him as he made his way down the ridge, gripping his walking stick tightly,...

In 1981, I was in the second year of my first round of college, and I worked for the campus newspaper. That was a bigger deal than it...

At this writing – in October 2023 – the US House of Representatives is without a Speaker. This situation was realized in the course of an...

A recent event in Ohio underscores a key feature of the growing conflict in the West today, as democracy struggles to push back against...

Maj. Chet Kinsman of the US Aerospace Force is aboard a space station, chatting with industrialist Ted Dreyer, whose tech corporation has...

Tech thinker Douglas Rushkoff was recently invited for a very private, secluded weekend with a handful of tech billionaires to answer...

Owing to the title of this book, I suppose it’s only fair that I actually discuss beer, at least in passing. I was never much of a fan...

[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered. This attempt at a humor column reads pretty dated now; the concept of conservatism it...

[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered] WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of an impromptu press conference...

(Reprinted from the Courier-Journal, April 29, 1990) You’d have been willing to bet that every last person in the Bomhard Theater last...

It would have been the mid-Seventies, but I can’t pin it down much more closely than that. I was at our family’s ancestral farm in Piqua,...

No one familiar with the music of Kansas would question their status as a progressive band. Not all their songs have progressive...

Ladies, are you alone in this world? Don’t have a man? In danger of becoming a spinster, an old maid? Well, McCall’s magazine has just...

Early in my cognitive pyschology studies, I came across George Lakoff. The first book I read by the Berkley language expert was Metaphors...