We live in a time of constant connection. You can't seem to go anywhere without the omnipresent digital world clawing at you. In these times of modern ...

In Pennsylvania, where I am visiting the granddaughters this week, lakes, rivers, streams, and any body of water bigger than a wading pool are lined with ...

I've heard a few coaches make this statement, often more of a brag: "I'm not begging them to come out." That's a sure sign that not many kids are on the team ...

You get them, I get them, we all get them. And they annoy the dickens out of all of us. Spam calls surpassed regular phone calls in 2019 for the first time. ...

Solace, meaning a source of comfort or consolation, is a word that has less meaning, less value, than it once did. We live in an age increasingly devoid of ...

I read the H.G. Wells classic "The Time Machine" in eighth grade, during a long interlude with science fiction as a junior high kid. The book was just one of ...

When I was a school teacher, a lesson I tried to instill in my math students was where and when to use a calculator, pencil and paper, mental math, or a ...

Remember last summer when some people were asking if you knew anyone who actually had contracted the coronavirus? To some of them, it was all a hoax. The ...

One of the unsung coaching skills is time management during tournaments. First and foremost, you're dealing with hormone-charged teenagers. Kids respond to ...

We're a little behind the times out here in the West when the latest trends finally reach us. It's improved with the advent of the Internet and satellite ...

They weighed a ton. Or seemed to. In Shoshoni, they were stacked vertically in the corner of Hazel's kitchen. In Lusk, it was much worse. They were in the ...

Cold in winter, hot in summer, with a few mice wandering through at night, and decidedly austere on its best day. This was my home for much of my high school ...

"I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part," says Otter in the 1978 frat-house comedy ...

I played in my first varsity football game the last Friday in August 1972. Just a sophomore, I thought I might letter after getting three quarters against ...

q Why do the comets, meteor showers and planetary alignments arrive so often when it's cloudy overhead in our clear-skied state? This is my last column in ...

Aside from a few veteran referees, I doubt if anyone has been on as many sports fields, in as many gyms, and at as many tracks as I have in Wyoming. From ...

My granddaughter doesn't know it, but that playground toy once was a construction component. Sometime in the early 1950s, my grandfather dug a deep hole near ...

Until I was 20 years old, steak was never a favorite of mine. I did enjoy something my Grandma Gasser made called "minute steaks," but as a youngster the ...

Dr. Ernie Abels was an informative, entertaining instructor. One summer I took a class from the Yellowstone Institute in Yellowstone National Park he taught ...

Private Harkness has a shoulder wound. MASH 4077th is out of anesthesia, and Dr. Hawkeye Pierce must operate using just a local anesthetic. As the surgeon ...

Chuck showed me the trunk once back in 1987. Inside were shirts, shorts, caps, and other paraphernalia from a lifetime of coaching football, basketball and ...

Chuck Wells showed me the trunk once back in 1987. Inside were shirts, shorts, caps, and other paraphernalia from a lifetime of coaching football, basketball ...

I have a standard line when I meet someone new. As we go through the checklist of our careers, trying to make some sort of connection that we can both build ...

We were obediently following the directional arrows on the floor as we grocery shopped last week. When you follow the traffic flow indicators it sometimes ...

Aunt Joy was my grandfather Forrest Tucker's sister. She and my uncle Burt lived in a ramshackle two-story house in Mariana, Arkansas. Their back yard was full ...

Coffee was an integral part of my morning ritual at every school I worked out in my 32-year career in K-12 education. At Shoshoni, there were a couple of ...

Perhaps surprisingly, we're approaching the end of the regular season for fall high school sports. Every football coach I've interviewed this year has ...