D. RANDALL FARO

Legalism isn’t a word often used in everyday conversation. A dictionary definition: “strict, literal, or excessive conformity to the law...

Steeplechasing might not be your thing. My guess is, probably not. For Geoffrey Mason it was an integral, thrilling, close-to-essential...

“It took Sally a long time to realize there was room in her life for something besides her work.” So writes Gail Bowen in one of her...

In Gail Bowen’s novel (nineteen in the Kilbourn series), A Killing Spring, Joanne responds to her daughter, Taylor’s, what-if: “Life is...

Just finished reading The Rooster Bar by John Grisham. It is a well-crafted, interesting, and enjoyable read . . . that is missing...

Canadian author Gail Bowen penned a poignant line in her book, A Killing Spring: “ Knowledge is a sturdier weapon than ignorance.” Why is...

Back to Jim Holt again. In his interesting book, Why Does the World Exist, he notes that “people are divided into two categories: those...

They’re all around us: beautiful sights. Don’t need to stand on the lip of the Grand Canyon or stare transfixed at the aurora borealis to...

“I don't like either the word hike or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not 'hike!' Do you know the origin of that...

Ideals are, well, ideals, and too often the gap between them and reality is akin to the Grand Canyon. Webster defines an ideal as “a...

In Why Does the World Exist author Jim Holt notes that “There are a hundred billion galaxies just in the little region of the universe we...

For some three hundred years the stirring sounds of unaccompanied cellos sending out the sound waves of J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G...

Philosopher Jim Holt notes that there are 30,00 active genes in the human genome. Each has at least two variants. So the number of...

What’s in a name? Lots! Take Ding Dong, Texas . . . do people there vie to be the Hostess with the mostest? Then there is What Cheer,...

“One of the great lessons of the history of science is that reality always turns out to be more encompassing than anyone imagined.” So...

Yonder stood grizzly. As in, thirty yards from me. Which meant about a three second sprint for the very big, very healthy-looking...

There is a hummingbird feeder right outside of my home office window. It is a joyful pastime to watch the cute little hummers flit and...

After trekking to Mt. Everest base camp last year, Erin Ryan wrote: “Nothing makes a person feel more alive than doing something...

Today is the anniversary of our daughter’s birth. Thirteen years ago, two days before her thirty-eighth birthday, she fell to her death...

In Tami Hoag’s book, Deeper Than Dead, she describes the father of one of the protagonists: “The other person’s role in a conversation...