Posted May 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Time Was

A long time ago, a song writer named Jimmy Dorsey said:

     Time was when we had fun      On the school yard swings      When we exchanged graduation rings      One lovely yesterday      Time was when we wrote      Love letters in the sand      Or lingered over our “coffee and”;      Dreaming the time away      Picnics and hay rides and […]

Posted May 31, 2018 in Uncategorized

A Rose By Any Other Name

I borrow the title for my article this month from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet uses the phrase to explain why Romeo’s family name does not change his character. Most people know that the play does not end well for Romeo and Juliet, and most people also know that the basic plot […]

Posted September 30, 2016 in Monthly News

Human Evolution

Humans like to think of themselves as the “Crown of Creation.” In 1968, Jefferson Airplane captured the irony of the human tendency to presume that we had achieved the pinnacle of the evolutionary process in the song, “Crown of Creation”:

You are the crown of creation. You are the crown of creation, And you’ve […]