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Graduation Time Part 2, Redux

We’re replaying another classic this week, the follow-up to Graduation Time. Graduation Time Part 2 was first published in... Read More →

This past weekend I joined a large group of former lettermen who returned to Virginia Tech for the annual... Read More →

I recently attended a reunion hosted by an old college pal, “Big Smith.” He called the reunion the “Old... Read More →

When I was a young man in my teens trying to find myself I hung out with the wrong... Read More →

In an article in the Washington Post this summer, Cal Ripken, Jr. was asked what advice his dad gave... Read More →

I recently attended the University of Maryland’s Homecoming football game against NC State. It was a beautiful fall day... Read More →

I have a friend who taught in the county school system for 42 years. Through the years he has... Read More →

I read an excellent article in the Washington Post a while ago. Sports writer John Feinstein wrote about a... Read More →

As many of you know, I am a big fan of the famous Woody Allen quote referenced in our... Read More →

Summer 1985: I was on top of the world. I had graduated from Virginia Tech a few years earlier,... Read More →