Category: Viewpoints

Three summers ago I flew to Kenai, Alaska to work for an offshore commercial salmon fishing operation. Part of our crew was old sea dogs, men who had come back to the salmon time and time again, hoping to scratch out enough money to fill their whiskey bottles or get lucky with a lady up…

Bob Dylan once said, “The times, they are a changin’.” In 10 days I will be graduating college ó leaving behind Wooster, friends, professors, an academic environment ó everything that has been my sense of place for the past four years.† Sometimes it feels like a million doors are closing, and when they do, I…

While spending my final summer as a college student in the four-shower-a-day heat of North Carolina with my good friend Graham Zimmerman, I can’t begin to describe how often we dreamt up the immaculate vision of what our senior year was going to be like. Living in Fairlawn apartments, we would be escaping the dorms…

Many seniors would probably say that when they look back over the last four years of their lives they don’t know where the time went. However, I can honestly say that when I look back I can remember clearly how I spent my time. I spent it going out to dinner with friends, going to…