SHORT STINT AT SOUTHWESTERN AT MEMPHIS             Right after my years at Duke and Oxford I spent three years teaching at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) and LeMoyne College, a Negro college also in Memphis. I have written about those years before so I’ll stick to salient details here. Southwestern was a first-class college…

GO MARINERS !!!             I grew up in the Pacific Northwest back before the big expansion of major leagues baseball and the invention of the Seattle Mariners team. A couple of years ago when I had quit teaching and was looking for something new to do I decided I might try watching the Mariners since…