Perhaps Kentucky’s most famous living writer, Wendell Berry, has created in his Port William stories a rural community of folks trying to make sense...
It is that time of year for me to be conflicted again, and it looks as if I had better get used to it. Yes, every time the OVC men’s basketball tournament...
Do you always get caught up in “the next big thing”? I know I do. The danger for me is that while I am always on the lookout for whatever that “next...
And so on or near April 4th of this Spring semester, I will try to do what I have done in my history classes to commemorate a turning point event in my...
With this column I want to tell Murray State students, faculty and staff about an opportunity to meet and hear a local writer and friend of the University....
A good, deep snow purifies the air, clears the mind and beautifies the landscape. I tell people how I yearn for snow, and they look at me as they often...
In the days approaching my second trip to England, I thought about how out-of-place I would be, a middle-aged man from a small town in western Kentucky...
Procrastination is the bane of academia, for students and professors alike. I see it in my students every day, but as Dr. Terry Ellis, my former pastor,...
As Hanukkah ends today and the Christmas season is now upon us, I am reminded yet again how much words matter. And I am not referring to that useless criticism...
The final bell sounded at Oaklawn Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, that Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1963, 50 years ago. I ran out to the curb where...
Because Arlie Scott taught 35 years as a professor of agriculture here at Murray State and because he served his country in such an extraordinary fashion,...
There he stood. Under a basket at Princeton University’s Dillon Gymnasium, in his basketball practice uniform. Still sweating from a demanding workout....
