So there I was walking home on a misty Monday night, after having spent an hour or so at the library enrolling in new classes, when it hit me.   “The Poetry Slam is this week,” I thought with...

To review, in my previous column, I lambasted opinions. I described my detest, in no dearth of detail, and outlined the unfavorable outcomes of sharing our opinions. A claim of Plato will serve as a final...

I wish I could create a solution for world peace. I wish for a lot of things that will never happen.   Hate is as inevitable as breathing.   More recently, the attacks in Beirut and Paris...

Terrorist attacks in unlikely places, like Paris, will always make the news.   The world was blindsided by Friday’s events, but we are urging people to take a breath. Let it sink in and think...

How rude. How rude of us to overlook the amazing turkey and its holiday of Thanksgiving. I mean really, aren’t we? It seems as if Halloween comes along, gets over, and boop, Christmas. Doesn’t it?   I...

DISCLAIMER: Chad Christensen had influence over the writing of this article. (I better get an A for saying that.)   How many times a day can a person lose their keys? Five. The answer is five...

“Hello… It’s me.”   While I’m no Adele, it does feel like a long time since I’ve written a column. And there is so much to say!   Rarely do I rate things that have nothing...

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from or what your personal ideologies are; everyone knows a veteran. It may be a family member or a classmate, but we all know someone who has served in...

Lately, I’ve been drawing circles on the floor of my office. Doing my best Faustus, conjuring up Keith Richards (my own personal Mephistopheles). “Oh world (my hand placed on forehead in a semi-dramatic...

When it comes to state money, personal politics don’t apply. Or at least they shouldn’t, but someone failed to tell Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts and Nebraska state prison officials. Yesterday,...

Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Yik Yak; there are so many distracting apps on our phones for us to occupy our time with. We love knowing what everyone else is up to and we can’t...