It’s time for end-of-month clearance. All impressions must go. There will be no refunds or exchanges. All puns are final. […]

     Exactly during which decades did some people of my generation lose touch with reality? What cave did we inhabit […]

    For my eighth-grade graduation at what was then a brand new Immaculate Conception church, the venerable Msgr. Edwin Bradley delivered […]

This is war . . . or at least it’s competition. Wednesday’s Optic contained a resolution/confession/regimen involving managing editor Dave […]

     An Optic photo which sticks in my mind after several decades concerns a group of Highlands University football players […]

    “The first shall be last and the last shall be first.”      One wonders whether that Biblical promise came about […]

     Late last year, an event occurred which we wouldn’t wish on anyone. It was a minor car accident. Our […]

     A young mother watched as her daughter played with a dozen elementary-age girls in a park next to her […]

    It’s the start of a (school) year. Picking up my grandson and namesake from school today reminded me of the […]

     Three students turned in their homework, but only two of them signed their work, so the anonymous contributor misses […]