woody's world

Thanks to my nephew Dan for getting me on this track. The link in not obvious. In 1969 I walked into my first real class of 90 students as a...

Why do we need a separate law for every hate crime? I don't really get it. Before today it wasn't a federal crime to hate a person b...

Today the President will sign the Defense Appropriations bill which includes the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention ...

I have lately been bothered by the unending amount of bad news from world science, political and economic sources that are pessimistic in th...

Found at last!! My old friend George Kistner . We had some crazy times in high school . He had a late 40s Chevy convertible that we used t...

One of those days when the future looms large for some reason. And it's not a pretty future either. Henry Pollack has just published a b...

He stood before the bathroom mirror. His father's straight razor in hand wondering how he got to this place. The only way out was a quic...

Some of you will remember the old TV series starring Fred MacMurry (who?). Good sitcom with a message at times. I never really thought tha...

First, before you get angry and dump this essay let me say that I think religion is very important to many people. But not to all people. I ...

My mother was born in 1903 in Milwaukee. Her father was a German cooper and her mother was a Gypsy. A real Gypsy. Mother had had 3 sisters, ...