• Memoir: How Memory Works

      What’s your earliest memory? Someone posed that question one day, when a bunch of us were sitting around chatting idly about life. I didn’t have to think about it. Or at least—thinking had nothing to do with what abruptly happened. An earliest-memory flashed up inside me immediately, bright with…

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    • Philosophy: Majoring in Leadership

      What if Genghis Khan had gone to college?  I pose the question because many colleges now offer courses in “leadership,”  and I’m wondering: could Genghis have profited from those? Or Napoleon, for that matter? What distinguishes a Napoleon Bonaparte from a Billy-Bob Bonaparte? Can the quality be packaged into…

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    • Fiction: How Fire Came to Be

      The little boy listened to his grandmother talking about the days when fire was still a novelty. “And were you there when it was invented, Granny?” he cried out, all agog with wonder. “Indeed I was,” she replied, smoothing his hair.  “Indeed I was. It happened long ago, when…

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