And sometimes forgets his helmet.


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I met Dr. Jenny Lind Porter Scott, one of my favorite teachers, in the mid-1970s during my first two years of college at what was…

Ever since the derecho last month, we’ve been stumped by stumps—tree stumps. It has been a lesson in the value of persistence. The tree in…

One of our favorite movies is “Up,” a charmer about an old guy named Carl whose wife Ellie always urged him to move up and…



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