Getting Off the Guilt Hook–Finally

I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy–what happened to the University of South Carolina’s great sophomore running back, Marcus Lattimore, who suffered a season-ending knee injury when the Gamecocks played at Mississippi State in a recent college...

Who or What Defines You?

Across my nearly seven decades of living, I have decided that the most important question for any of us is, “Who or what defines us? Who or what tells us who we are?” For some, it is primarily material; for others, moral and spiritual–or perhaps...

Bullying and Immunology

My receding hairline these days reveals a small blue spot above my forehead. And sometimes I’m asked what it is. I explain that it is pencil lead. When I was a 14-year-old high school freshman, an older kid stuck a pencil in my head, a reminder of which my...