I’ve never been much of a joiner, and I don’t know why. If I were gilding the lily, I’d say it’s due to my keen sense of individuality. More likely, however, I’m just an oddball who never fit into any groups.

Thus, for me to participate

As a kid, I always seemed to gravitate toward older people. And when I say older, I mean older — as in much, much older.

Even when I was in single digits, I regularly visited with folks in their late 60s or even their 70s. Which was no

My last week’s column was about macaroni and cheese, something I thought could not be simpler. Milk, pasta, salt, cheese, bread crumbs, maybe a grain or two of pepper and that’s it.

Or at least that would’ve been it if I’d been consider

I’ve always thought one sign of a great mind — like mine — is the ability to find similarities between vastly different objects. Of course, that can also be a sign of rampant lunacy, but that’s a whole different issue altogether (or at least I hope s

That most dreaded time of the semester had rolled around — starting research papers — and I was going over proposed topics with my students.

Per usual, they ran the gamut, from the hackneyed to the horrific — from the History of the Ford