Not my First Rodeo
- TEACHING AS THE MAIN ATTRACTION AT THE TRUE GRITRODEO Howard Roberts Lamar was my adviser in graduate school. Without the true grit he brought to bear on that role, I truly do not know what would have become of me. As this opening statement
- EMPATHY RECLAIMS ITS POWER AND COMES TO OUR RESCUE As God is my witness, I believe that the United States is in peril. Since this is the first time in my life that I have asked a deity to lend me His credibility, I wanted to make sure that I
- TIME TRAVEL AT THE BOSTON RADIO RODEO Any man鈥檚 death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom The bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne, 鈥淣o Man Is an Island鈥 Exactly forty years ago
- RODEO鈥橲 INSTITUTIONAL KIN鈥擳HE SHEEPDOG TRIALS 鈥淲e are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break the bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely
- The Book of Matthew Stays in the Saddle at the White House Rodeo Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5: 5-6 THE WORLD
- In a different world, the adjective 鈥渢ragicomic鈥 would have withered from disuse and irrelevance. Some of the time, we would be laughing, and some of the time, we would be weeping, and we would never get confused about whether we should be laughing
- The professional kinship between historians and rodeo clowns has long gone unnoticed, a situation that has to change. When rodeo clowns see that a rider is in big trouble, tangled in his gear while the animal beneath him is bucking and twisting up a