Author: Clifford Humphrey (Clifford Humphrey)

Last week, I tried to take the most bitter perspective on winter as the Underwarm Man while having a bit of fun with Dostoevsky at the same time. This week, with an encomium to winter, I would like to offer my community a more positive perspective on these cold days. From somewhere in the early...

I am a cold man…. I am a wintry man. I am a hypothermic man. My boots are caked in salt residue, but I won’t tell anyone. The salt can eat through the leather, and I won’t even care!  Why should I? I never owed the boots anything. I don’t owe anything to anyone, especially...

5.3 seconds. That’s how much time you save by walking through the bushes between Lane and Kendall instead of following the sidewalk around the Civil War memorial. (I know because I timed it.) It should go without saying that the honored dead from this school should be remembered with reverence and that students here care...