The last thing Abraham Lincoln heard before he died was the gunshot that knocked him to the floor of his balcony at Ford Theatre. We...

Twine is a cord made from multiple strands that have been first twisted and then plied together in the opposite direction to give it...

The hierarchical class system that the founding fathers destroyed through the Radical Notion that all men are created equal had its...

My worldview is formed by two radical notions. The first applies to how I believe the world came into existence, and the second to my...

There is another thing that impacts the accuracy of dead reckoning that is not an externality, but rather resides within the man himself....

I learned to land navigate as a young soldier long before the advent of GPS. Back then (without a satellite to guide your movement with...

The rise of social media is seen by many as revolutionary, but the Minivan Centurion sees it as evolutionary. For him, it’s just another...

I’ve never been much interested in the weather. To be precise, it’s predictions of the weather that don’t interest me. When the weather...

During the summer after my college graduation, I worked the door at an Irish bar in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod. Every night I would stand...

A healthy group is thick in The Middle and skinny at both ends. The ends are skinny because that is where the Orists are, and in a...

It is our nature as humans to unite into groups. We are driven to it by our internal desire for security and significance, and neither of...

There are many ways to learn. Today, the dominant method is didactically, by way of the classroom setting. When my kids started...

We have a tradition in the American military called the dining-in, where the officers in a unit (generally a battalion or brigade) put on...

The sonogram was not widely used to determine a baby’s gender until the ‘70s, so I doubt that my parents had the chance to see me in the...

“Is there anyone here named Adam?” My pastor asked the congregation one day. “Nobody?” Apparently there wasn’t, because nobody said...

I was twelve years old and riding in the back seat of our family’s station wagon when somebody cut us off in traffic. My father hit the...

I’ve noticed something funny about the names of minivans. Car makers often market them with names that connote a sense of movement or...

I saw Vacation in the movie theatre when it came out in 1983. Watching the Griswold family’s stumbling cross-country journey to Walley...

Twenty years went by very quickly after that first sonogram. During that time I learned some things about women that I didn’t know when I...

My wife is not the kind of person who is willing to be surprised. As a kid, she would sneak downstairs two weeks before Christmas in the...