My eldest son got his learner’s permit today, meaning that the roads in our immediate vicinity have been rendered unsafe for all vehicles, pedestrians, light poles, fruit carts, and small mammals. The teenaged “brain”—p…

There are stars up there, and they still intrigue me. When I was a kid, I wrote science fiction. Specifically, I wrote bad, adolescent science fiction: my spaceships careened through the cosmos faster than light simply…

At my wife’s urging, I’ve taken to writing with an eye towards publication in scholarly journals. It’s a good idea, even at the undergrad level; getting into a respectable master’s program is a challenge, and it won’t h…