woody's world

Matt is graduating Friday. PhD. The second one in the family. Sally was first. Both of mine should have been second and third, but I walked ...

The email said” Just wanted to let you know that Ben died on April 12th by his own decision. All of us who knew him will miss the Ben we kne...

Ok. I’m writing this so I am not dead. But an inch and a second is all the difference there was between life and death. Here are a few detai...

The student emailed a typical request: Can I come see you during your SSS time to go over my last exam? Sure, I responded, come by whenever...

She left the office late one night, a good feeling of a job well done. On the way to the parking lot on a fairly dark path she had the disti...

Humans are capable of the most despicable and degraded behavior imaginable. Hate some ethnic group? Hate some religions? Hate some lifestyle...

Those few words started something. A grad school buddy sang a few songs in Spanish and with these words began a quest to learn to play and ...

In around 1920, Hal Search, my father, entered the Milwaukee School of Engineering and promptly joined the band. The third from the left, b...

Have you ever seen such angelic young men? Did you notice the tiny smiles, like they know something nobody else knows? They did. They knew ...

The Abandoned Plymouth: When I last spoke I had just embarrassed a future King of Reptiles after a trip to the ‘glades. On that same trip t...