A roaring fireplace, Momma’s oven-baked sugar cookies and Daddy’s reading holiday poems aloud to my siblings and me as “A Motown Christmas” played: I cannot imagine the holidays without intertwining those memories. My fondness for tradition, however, doesn’t prevent me … Read the rest
Greetings, Professor Graglia,
You seem like a thoughtful and educated man and given your decades of teaching experience, including your current post as a University of Texas Law Professor, you may not have meant to diminish the performance efforts of … Read the rest
August, 1945: a sailor charges into the street, pulls a nurse into his arms and bends her backwards with a forceful kiss. The impulsive “Nurse and Sailor” embrace became an iconic American image. For decades, it personified a renewed and … Read the rest
As you bow your heads over the bounty of food and feel the intimate embrace of family and friends, take a moment to remember….
“The “idea” of Thanksgiving is a wonderful one…and we should be thankful each and everyday. But … Read the rest
A native of Kenya, Mr. Alex Armagoha (Ar-ma-GO-uh) was the instructor of my Government 2301 class.
With an audience of fifty students a night twice a week, it would’ve been easy for him to recite statistics, discuss the levels of … Read the rest