This week, I watched my son’s intense college soccer game at SUNY Plattsburgh. The Cardinals were down by a goal — demonstrating one of sports’ great paradoxes: the score doesn’t always reflect the quality of play. The announcer boomed the two-minute warning, inciting chaos. The ...

With classroom activities in full-swing, parents have been asking me some honest questions as to what to do if their child is caught cheating. Cheating, as you all know, is when a person deceives others or acts dishonestly on purpose. It can happen at school, in a sport, or at ...

I’m sure there are lots of people my age who are perfectly in tune with the 21st century. But I’m not one of them. It’s the new technologies that done laid me to waste, advancing light years in mere decades and leaving me in the dust. Luckily, I don’t need most of it, so I don’t ...

This is a true story of a concept written on a cocktail napkin in Potsdam, New York late one night at a frat party in 1971. The discussion culminated with an idea for a band name. The napkin is long gone but the band has lasted more than 50 years, and their fans still come to hear them. ...