Seeing People
Imagine you are driving on a street with stop lights, and you have to make a left turn at one of them. You arrive at the intersection, and just as you get into the left turn lane the light turns green. That’s good news — less time, less gasoline, get home early. Then you notice […]
Lee Elder and Tiger Woods: Progress Takes Patience
“The fact that a problem will certainly take a long time to solve, and that it will demand the attention of many minds for several generations, is no justification for postponing the study.” So said T. S. Eliot way back in 1939. As it happens that was the same year he published a book of […]
It is good to give thanks.
Sarah You may have never heard of Sarah Josepha Hale, who is pictured here, but you know at least some of her work. She was born in New Hampshire in 1788. Her parents were advocates of education for both sexes, and Sarah was taught is school much beyond the normal age for women. She married […]
