Stones from the Creek

 The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2009, took nine-and-a-half years to make the 3 billion mile trip from Earth to the vicinity of Plu...

  In the 1970’s the city used to cut high school allocations for teachers every February according to January graduations and attendance. Te...

Questions about kinship have been much on my mind. I wonder about my former students who call me “Pops” or who tell me - in the most serio...

  On Wednesday the commercial press was full of alarm over this country’s dependence on China for strategically-important minerals, especial...