This time the television cameras were gone. The networks that had sensationalized the Virginia Tech tragedy had moved on. NBC, which had seen fit to provide a forum for the deranged rants of a murderous madman, didn’t seem to find Saturday’s events newsworthy. Maybe it was just as well. The last thing many of us [...]

I will issue a fair warning: This is going to be one of THOSE pieces. The kind that in the past have resulted in my being savaged on message boards and my Inbox filled with diatribes. If your sensitivities and emotions are still very raw from recent events read no further. For those still around, I [...]

I quickly discovered that I was not the only alumnus of Virginia Tech drawn to campus yesterday. After updating this site yesterday morning and watching the early press conference from Tech, I decided to head to campus. I arrived around noon. I walked around the campus for a time, meeting several other alums, one from Richmond, [...]

It’s called suspension of disbelief. A tool of fiction writers, it is used to attempt to convince readers to accept as true most any premise put forward, no matter how strange. It was certainly in play Monday, April 16, 2007, but not caused by any work of fiction. Over the years, I have written a few [...]

Miss me? Yes, it has been a while. Over three weeks, as a few of you graciously reminded me, information interspersed among the questions such as ‘Are you all right?” I wasn’t. I rarely catch colds or the flu. By my recollection, it has been at least a couple of decades, maybe longer, since I [...]