The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

Just came in sipping coffee on the front stoop and thinking about yesterday. The colorful amarillas trumpeting the coming of summer, the light of the street post bouncing off their profusion of red and white, helped take my mind off the continuing but waning aches of last week’s “open toe” surgery. But, I was also [...]

It is the beginning of a new term. A penetrating and pervasive sour mist of regret hangs over the campus instead of an embracing, sweet, billowing cloud of rejoice. It is the beginning of a new term. There is little sparkle in my colleagues eyes; their step is flat; their pace is lingering; their voice [...]