The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

I was reading student journals this early morning.  As I read of what seemed like a debilitating epidemic of manic depression plaguing our campus as the semester comes to a harried close, something struck me. How often do we think, do we loudly assert, that we know students. But, in truth, almost all of us [...]

The billowing clouds of golden “pine pollen storms” turned the bluing skies of dawn into an eerie green. Goldfinger is here! Even the gnats and mosquitoes are gilded. At the end of last week, our Spring literally had sprung in one day from a wintry Thursday in the 40s and 50s to a summery Friday [...]