On my mother’s 82nd birthday, I gave her a cookbook with 82 of her family recipes.

She cried for joy.

In addition to being a great cook, my mother is also an excellent artist, and throughout the cookbook I included not only pictures from her life, but also samples of her artwork.

Nutrition fads may …

College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the student’s lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. — Mark Twain

While Twain’s tongue-in-cheek observation about the traditional college model held true in Mark Twain’s day–up until about ten years ago the …

Despite everyone being exhausted, sometimes speaking in incomplete or undecipherable sentences from lack of sleep, a murmur of expectation was building in the air.

Though everyone else had two days of the residency left, for the graduating class, today was graduation day.

In the morning, the last …