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Throwback Thursday: Old haunts and lasting friendships
I made an extended weekend trip to northwest Indiana for a long overdue visit with friends and family, one filled with both nostalgia for the past and appreciation for enduring friendships renewed....
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Wanna run for President? You can!
In a piece for the Boston Globe (registration may be necessary), Astead W. Herndon reports that over 500 individuals have registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as Presidential...
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Throwback Thursday: High school football benchwarmer
I’m in this photo, the very tanned kid with black hair in the 5th row. Some forty Augusts ago, I was sweating it out on a blazing hot northwest Indiana practice field, along with 60 or so other guys...
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A nostalgic traveler’s dilemma: Explore new vistas or retrace old steps?
Vienna, Austria: I love turning a corner and finding an old city street Travelers who suffer from chronic bouts of nostalgia (i.e., me) may face a familiar dilemma: Given a choice, do we explore new...
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“Welcome to first-year orientation” (Gulp)
Samuel Morse’s allegorical landscape picturing the university as paradise, placing NYU’s original Gothic style building at left (1835-36) For many educators, mid-August brings a sort of foreboding:...
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A quick visit to Hyde Park, Chicago
Yours truly in Hyde Park (Photo by Sharon Franklin Driscoll, 2012) During my recent visit to Northwest Indiana, I made a quick side trip to the Hyde Park section of Chicago, largely to browse through...
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Latest binge view: “The Knick” (season one)
Last weekend I plowed through the ten episode first season of The Knick, a Cinemax drama set in a fictitious Manhattan hospital during the early 1900s. It stars Clive Owen as Dr. John Thackeray, a...
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Classic movie report: August 2015
I declared as one of my New Year’s resolutions that I would watch more classic old movies, so each month I’m devoting an entry to how I’m doing with it. This month I dug back to 1976 for a couple of...
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Geek fantasy: Doing college all over again, but only on terms that defy reality
“Umm, professor, you’re expecting me to actually read these?” (Photo: DY, 2013) On Facebook yesterday, one of my long-time college friends posted a photo of her son’s residence hall room. She added...
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The awesomeness of “Hill Street Blues”
My current binge view is season 3 of “Hill Street Blues,” the gritty police drama that ran from 1981 to 1987. A four-time Emmy Award winner for outstanding drama series, it still holds up very well...
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Fall, fantasy football, and a song or two
Thursday night kicked off the NFL season, which for several million fans also meant the beginning of fantasy football. Somehow I find myself in three fantasy leagues this fall, which means that I’ll...
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Too many road warrior gadgets?
….and add my iPhone, which took this photo This week I took a super quick, one night trip to Washington D.C. for an awards banquet, and I found myself chuckling over how much gadgetry I was packing for...
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The day the House Minority Leader took my photo in the Luxembourg Gardens of...
The Hon. Richard Gephardt (Photo: Wikipedia) Back in the summer of 1998, I was attending a continuing legal education seminar in Oxford, England. The two-week program had a built-in extended weekend...
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International travel before globalization
Vienna, Austria (photo: DY, 2015) My visits with long-time friends Sharon and Don Driscoll inevitably include good conversations, and some of them revolve around our shared status as members of...
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National Coffee Day: Ramblings of a middlebrow coffee connoisseur
Coffee, work, and music are big parts of my life, so this photo is apropos (Photo: DY, 2015) I don’t know which trade association declared it as such, but today is National Coffee Day. And so I join...
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New England autumn, that Halloween feeling, and scary stories
Boston Common, October 2015 (Photo: DY) Friday was a raw, wet, overcast October day here in Boston. For me, it meant that fall has truly arrived in New England. As my wholly repetitive earlier posts...
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Thinking young and thinking old: The best of both worlds
(Photo: DY, 2015) So here’s the question for the day: In looking for books that help us to play the game of life, should we seek insights that encourage us to be young and adventurous or old and wise?...
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What are your “comfort books”?
OMG, I am an utter, hopeless geek What are your “comfort books”? You know, those books that make you feel all warm and cozy, like a good meatloaf or bowl of soup? It could be a classic novel, scary...
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Lost traditions: The Sunday newspaper
Not too long ago, a popular Sunday tradition was spending a good chunk of the day reading through the Sunday editions of the daily newspapers. Millions experienced the tactile delight of opening up a...
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When the World’s Fair came to Chicago in 1893
Although Christopher Columbus isn’t on my list of favorite historical figures — click here and here for reasons — the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair that bore his name was a sight to behold. The “Columbian...
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