National Reputation, Local Presence?
Yesterday my son and I went to Vassar College to watch the women’s soccer match between Vassar and New Paltz. No. 1 Daughter is attending New Paltz, thoug...
Author: Will Cox
Feed Me, Seymour
Polls out recently show Andrew Cuomo ahead among likely voters in the Democratic primary election in New York, and the other day the various unions declared the...
Because I Said So
There is, yet again, a sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. I have not followed all the details, being somewhat unconcerned with Church politics a...
Don’t Fence Me In
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Jeff Sharlet had some trouble coming back from a trip to Canada because he took a picture. Remember when A...
Yes, I like The Shire
In his New York Times column last Sunday, Ross Douthat remarked The teenage nerd enters conservatism through either Atlas Shrugged or Lord of the Rings, and bet...
Private Gain at the Public Expense
We should be on the Appalachian Trail today, but the threat of thunderstorms persuaded me that this week was not the time for a first backpacking trip with the ...
Feedback
I don’t recall many of my college successes with great clarity, but I do recall my few failures. Two in particular stand out: both D’s on short pape...
On This Day, 18 Years Ago
The world changed: I became a father.
He can call me Flower if he wants to
Each day another wonder sprouts. Yesterday it was daffodils. Today it’s forsythia, magnolia, cherry blossoms, and dandelion.
To Do List
Home Economics is not "Consumer Sciences"
Certainly Meaning Matters
Spectator sports are relaxing because I know I can't affect the outcome.
FUD
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt is not just a marketing scheme to sell computer software, but a tactic applicable generally.
Proud to be an American, Where What?
I overhead part of an odd conversation between No. 1 Son and No. 2 Son that came while they were preparing for bed after we’d watched The Gamers: Humans &...
Intrusion
There are times when I get myself in trouble because I minimize the details, and see only the Big Picture. One of those days was when one of our clients complai...
Now
The iPhone crouches at the corner of my chair, well within reach. The iMac sits on the altar in the living room, but I can worship from afar by picking up the i...
All These Many Voices
In which I feel relatively free making up statistics because my assertion doesn't care -- and reliable data is hard to find if not nonexistent.
Consider the Lilies of the Field
Yesterday I spotted a valiant, optimistic beauty in my lawn. The crocus uses what time it has, when it can. It must. Today it still reached for the sun. Therefo...
The Illusion of Perfection
One of my favorite stories of a political figure is of Jimmy Carter, who said, yes, I’ve sinned. I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve...
Connectivity
Respect for others’ time is difficult when you cannot see them. The telephone interrupts dinner, church, conversations. The burden of ignoring the interru...