A national television commentator who passed away last month began many of his segments with the phrase, “Don’t you just hate it when…?” and then he’d slide into a rant — albeit a humorous...

Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s talk about the Kellett School. And, yes... there was a suspicious death. Someone murdered the Kellett Tree. It happened a while back. You’ve seen them....

I was expanding my original list of “Ways to Recognize a Non-trad” when Jenni Heinrich, who writes the column above this one, saw my ideas and asserted that I was only writing about “old” non-trads. She...

Danny Spatchek, Editor-in-Chief of the Mirror, stopped in while I was writing one of my columns. “You’re just having too much fun with this,” he said, “and that’s not right.” “Besides,”...

I’m interning for Professor Karl Elder in the writing department, doing some of the legwork for the Great Lakes Writer’s Festival in November. One of my jobs is to order the T-shirts that will be sold...