Columnists, In Person
What psychologists can learn from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I have been reading a lot of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, geologist, paleontologist, and philosopher who was active in his career during the first half...
What I learned from building a model ship
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky.” With these words, John Masefield begins his best known poem, “Sea Fever.” They capture the draw that...
You are here: Our lives with maps
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
You are here. Without maps, you would still be here, but you wouldn’t know where here is. Or there, or how to get from here to there. I don’t know when I first had this...
Reading Vonnegut in the playroom
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Visiting the grandkids is always a special treat and we make the day-long drive as often as we can. As the years roll on, our visits change from participating in the routines...
The president and the poet
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
It had snowed heavily the night before, and the day dawned with a frigid wind and blinding sunlight that glinted off the blanket of white spread out in all directions where the...
Still hoping for the world we want
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
It was two in the morning when a chartered bus carrying 30 idealistic teenagers drove up to a hangar at New York’s Kennedy airport where a propeller-driven Iceland Airlines...
Remembering Jimmy Carter
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
There are worlds within worlds. Galaxies fill the cosmos. Stars fill the galaxies and planets spin around the stars. The earth, what we call our world, is just one of them, and...
O Christmas Tree
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
As I write these words in early December, what is left of our small Thanksgiving turkey sits in the fridge holding one more meal for two. Our Christmas tree, artificial this...
When we knew for certain
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Remember when we knew for certain that the moon would always follow us if we kept looking at it through the side window of the car? “Keep looking,” Mom said, “and it will...