Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “The notion of cold fire lurking in flint was intriguing and remains so. Often, when my shovel strikes a stone in the garden and a spark flares…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “My aunt Clarice, a proponent of keeping the faith (to oneself), was the first woman in the state of Georgia granted a pilot’s license. I was unaware…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Beyond the ‘hugging,’ I recommend my own version of ‘shuttle diplomacy.’ Instead of a diplomat flying back and forth between, say, Jerusalem and Tehran, I’d put some…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “There’s the son of Bertrand Russell who crocheted himself a pair of pants from a giant ball of string he’d saved. There’s Flannery O’Connor, at age six,…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “The solution, I feel, lies in the separation of ‘church and state,’ or divorcing the revenue sports from the academy. I don’t favor abolishing the ‘Big Two,’…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “I never should have taken those kids across that thoroughfare without their mother’s explicit permission, even if the kids did look like orphans and it was their…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Before the light comes on, you must chop a lot of wood./Then the need for further chopping will be understood.”—The Wordspinner “If at first you don’t succeed,…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Our son was reminded of the time he and his high school teammates had taken the team bus to play an away game. When the baseballers returned,…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Weavers had to know that three inches of yarn made a palm’s worth; three palms made a span; five spans made an ell; ninety-six ells made a…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Perhaps because I married a woman almost a foot shorter than I, I’ve never taken much pride in being tall, any more than I pride myself on…