Im on my way to Chateau Gaillard, the International Castles Studies Conference, being held in Edinburgh, Scotland. I flew through Chicago to Heathrow, then on to Edinburg. Ive flown through Heathrow enough times to know that it can be a royal pain (get it, “royal,” because its England???). However, they seem to [...]

Im not a big concert goer. In fact, I’m really less inclined to go to a concert because I usually think “Man, that wasnt really worth it.” In fact, I can count the number of concerts Ive ever been to on both hands:
1. Springsteen, 1984 (Born in the USA…I think I [...]

In 1985, I graduated from Saint Louis University High School. At the time, like a lot of St. Louis students today, I had a choice between going to the University of Missouri-Columbia and Saint Louis University. I visited both campuses, and the short of the story is that I ended up going to [...]

My dad, a SLU MEd alum and St. Louis high school football coach for 42 years, used to say around this time of year that “there was a smell in the air.” For my dad, the smell meant the beginning of the football season and school year and the end of summer. Even [...]