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If You Want to Fish in My Pond, Come by the House First

Oliver W. Cummings Johnnie was as fine a neighbor as a guy could have. When I was a youngster and our families visited, swapped work, butchered hogs together. We also fished and went on the occasional fish fry together. Johnnie favored fishing with a seine, or hogging. I learned to hog fish (now sometimes called…

Philosophy, The Cosmos, and Terry Brown

Another story about wisdom not found in books By Oliver W. Cummings In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, universities around the world are rethinking how to best provide the university experience going forward. We saw basically everything go online in the second half of the spring 2020 semester. I think many schools will move…

The Pool Hall

This is the first of a series of lessons not found in books A Lesson in Life and Business at the Pool Hall; Or, You Can Learn Good Stuff from Unexpected Places By: Oliver W. Cummings Sometimes, when life seems particularly unpredictable and hard to cope with, it pays to think back to what we…