My Column for December 31, 2017

I'm sharing my new year's resolution this week. --S/f, EFP

My Column for December 24, 2017

"You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!" --S/f, EFP

My Column for December 17, 2017

Another Palm sampler. --S/f, EFP

My Column for December 10, 2017

I'm poking this hornet's nest again. --S/f, EFP

My Column for December 3, 2017

A little of this, a little of that this week. --S/f, EFP

My Column for November 26, 2017

NRA members are denouncing me for this one. I must have done something right. --S/f, EFP

My Column for November 19, 2017

The epigraph for this week's column comes from Milton's Paradise Lost: "A gulf as profound as that Serbonian bog . . . where armies whole have sunk." --S/f, EFP

My Column for November 12, 2017

And now, back to those thrilling days of yesteryear! --S/f, EFP

My column for November 5, 2017

An update: Brian Edward Palm died at 10:15 a.m. on 31 October 2017.  --S/f, EFP

My Column for October 29, 2017

I expect to draw some brickbats over this one. --S/f, EFP

My Column for October 22, 2017

My Column for October 15, 2017

My Column for October 8, 2017

My Column for October 1, 2017

Please pardon the "plaintiff"/"plaintive" lapse. --S/f, EFP

My Column for September 24, 2017

I need to preface this column with a mea culpa. It appeared online on Friday, and on Saturday morning, I received a nicely worded email from Lynn Novick asking me to acknowledge that she was the co-producer and co-director of the series. I'm happy to do so. From what I've since learned, the series should have been billed as Lynn Novick and Ken Burns's "The Vietnam War." Novick did most of the work.  See "Meet Lynn Novick, the most important documentarian you've never heard of," Washington Post, 21 Sept. 2017. --S/f, EFP

My Column for September 17, 2017

Now it can be told! --S/f, EFP

My Column for September 10, 2017

I'm offering another Palm-Leaf Sampler this week. --S/f, EFP

My Column for September 3, 2017

This week, I'm looking back on an impromptu pool party we had in Vietnam in 1967. See the second page of my Flickr album "Vietnam 1967" for a few photos of that party. --S/f, EFP   (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palm-prints/albums/72157649413461719/page1)

P.S. One correction: I think it was three weeks before I got to change my socks.

My Column for August 27, 2017

Once more into the fray! --S/f, EFP

My Column for August 20, 2017

My Column for August 13, 2017

I think I've learned a few things in my three score and ten years. --S/f, EFP

My column for August 6, 2017

My column from last week (when I was traveling). --S/f, EFP

My Column for July 30, 2017

In the words of the poet, "Look homeward, angel, and melt with ruth." (I dodged a posthumous bullet.) --S/f, EFP

My Column for July 23, 2017

In the words of the immortal Warren Zevon, "Life will kill you! Requiescat in pace. That's all she wrote." --S/f, EFP

My Column for July 16, 2017

Ah, what larks we had in the gross anatomy lab! What larks! --S/f, EFP

My Column for July 9, 2017

In the words of the bard, "Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me."  --S/f, EFP

My Column for July 2, 2017

As one of my former faculty members at Glenville State once complained to my executive assistant, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, "Colonel, the major is causing trouble again!" (I was a department chair at Glenville.) --S/f, EFP

My Column for June 25, 2017

In the words of the bard, "I am a man more sinned against than sinning!" --S/f, EFP

My Column for June 18, 2017

Once again, I'm biting the academic hands that used to feed me. --S/f, EFP

My Column for June 11, 2017

Department of Fair Warning: You won't be able to unsee the image I create here. (I had a paragraph break before the coda. The page designer ran the last two paragraphs together to make room for the teaser.) --S/f, EFP

My Column for June 4, 2017

"The Union forever! Hurrah, boys [and girls], hurrah!"  --S/f, EFP

My Column for May 28, 2017

"Nobody knows the troubles I've seen."  --S/f, EFP

My Column for May 21, 2017

And the beat goes on . . . . --S/f, EFP

My Column for May 14, 2017

It occurs to me that what Trump needs is a good old-fashioned court jester.  --S/f, Ed

My Column for May 7, 2017

Having gone no-Trump for a few weeks now, I decided it was time to jump back into the fray. --S/f, EFP

My Column for April 30, 2017

Come the revolution, the communication companies are going to belong to the people! --S/f, EFP

My Column for April 23, 2017

I'm being a grinch again.  --S/f, EFP

My Column for April 16, 2017

I'm having a Miltonic moment this week. I'm helping "justify the ways of God to men [and women]." --S/f, EFP

My Column for April 9, 2017

Palm, in your heart you know he's right--especially today, Palm Sunday!  --S/f, EFP

My Column for April 2, 2017

And what about all the young men wearing their hair short these days?  They've appropriated my Marine Corps culture.  --S/f, EFP

My Column for March 26, 2017

I'm giving credit where credit is due this week.  --S/f, EFP

My Column for March 19, 2017

Once more into the fray!  --S/f, EFP

My Column for March 12, 2017

I miss the Cold War--along with my misspent youth.  --S/f, EFP

My Column for March 5, 2017

Warning:  This column could be habit-forming.  --S/f, EFP

My Column for February 26, 2017

I'm taking a stroll down Memory Lane this week.  --S/f, EFP

Occasional Dispatch #28

My ego is showing this week.  --S/f, EFP

Occasional Dispatch #27

Once more into the fray!  --S/f, EFP

Occasional Dispatch #26

Another lesson in literature--a service I provide at no additional charge.  --S/f, EFP

Occasional Dispatch #25

This week, I'm reporting visiting hallowed ground and admitting to living in a "house divided.". --S/f, EFP

Occasional Dispatch #24

Let's make academe great again!  --S/f, EFP