Although we can’t prove that Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” we certainly can admit the wisdom in this adage ...

Inspired by childhood memories of accompanying his physician father and nurse mother on medical calls, Dr. Jim Withers began ...

The typical family unit on my tour was a mom, a dad, and a 17-year-old kid who was a prospective student. But one day an ...

As a scholarship boy I was expected to get a summer job, save lots of money, and apply it to my tuition for the fall semester ...

Andrew Carnegie provided the means to establish the Carnegie Institute, but he believed that it should be supported by those who use it. He wasn’t much of an art collector, so he left it to others to ...

I could devote several months of essays to the question of how and why America became so divided and how and why we lost the stomach for maintaining the global paradise we so painfully created and ...

Editor’s note: This piece was written and originally published prior to the Pirates getting off to the second-best start of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. Sixteen. That’s how many teams have won ...

My story begins in Mexico City. I am the youngest of eight children, and my father passed away from liver disease when I was 11. When someone in your life dies while you are still young, you don’t ...