Pectoral sandpipers remind us that reproducing is a brutal competition, tiring too: You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another. That’s the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral sandpiper looking for love in northernmost Alaska, according […]
A dad’s legacy: Warriors’ Kerr guided by father’s example
Malcolm Kerr was assassinated in the winter of 1984, gunned down by Islamic terrorists at the American University of Beirut. Source: A dad’s legacy: Warriors’ Kerr guided by father’s example
George Washington: The Founding Father by Paul Johnson
Part of the “Eminent Lives” series, George Washington: the Founding Father is a succinct (123 pg.) and compelling reflection on the life of perhaps the greatest American to have ever lived. British historian, Paul Johnson objectively recounts and reflects on Washington and takes the reader through the great periods in […]