Reading to your children will change their lives

This is my column in today’s Greenville News.  Read to your kids! http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130303/OPINION/303030006/Reading-your-children-will-change-their-lives?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s I love bedtime.  As a husband and father, it’s just a time of absolute wonder.  Life winds down in the evenings.  The sun sets, the children slow … Continue reading

Make college relevant, not a resort vacation (my column in the Greenville News)

A big thanks to Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit for the link! This is my column in today’s Greenville News.  A topic I’m passionate about, in no small part thanks to hearing Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, speak on it at Clemson University.  … Continue reading

Season’s transitions can make parents worry…(or, ‘There goes my heart, off to school!)

Here is my column in yesterday’s Greenville News, concerning the transitions of our children’s lives, and the anxiety it those changes provoke in all of us, their crazy parents. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120826/OPINION/308260009/Ed-Leap-Season-transitions-can-make-parents-worry?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s&nclick_check=1 Off they go this week! Wee children to day-care, pre-school … Continue reading

Homeschool graduation address, 2012: Lessons from medicine

This talk was delivered to the Easley Home Educators graduation ceremony, June 1st, 2012, at Rock Springs Baptist Church, Easley, SC. Congratulations, class of 2012! Thank you so much for the honor of speaking to you and your loved ones … Continue reading

Self-evident truth in medicine

Some things in medicine are obvious.  Despite the endless worship of ‘evidence-based’ medicine, and the constant barrage of studies on every conceivable topic, we do certain things because we know they just seem right.  I take as evidence the fact … Continue reading

Making the future brighter for aspiring physicians: text of my lecture

This is the text of my recent lecture at the Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University. Making the future brighter for aspiring physicians March 29, 2012 Calhoun Lecture Series Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University Thank you for the invitation to speak … Continue reading