The Slippery World of College, Country, and People Rankings

Rankings are alluring. And because they feed into our hierarchy instinct, we tend to take them more seriously than we should. Let me elaborate with some examples in this post. College Rankings My friends and acquaintances sometimes consult me, a college instructor, regarding college choice decisions. In these interactions, I am surprised by their over-emphasis […]

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Vegetable Gardening 101: Some Tips and Life Lessons

This post is a follow-up to Vegetable Gardening 101 (read here) wherein I described my gardening routine up to the planting season and wrote I would blog about the post-planting season in October 2022. Unfortunately, my 2022 gardening season was very disappointing. Consequently, I didn’t have the heart to write a follow-up blog. But a year […]

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