by Dr. Norris Frederick As you think about the coming year, or your life in general, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Is it better to be one rather than the other? Or…
text and photography by Dr. Norris Frederick “The great point is that the possibilities are really here. The issue is decided nowhere else than here and now. That is what gives the palpitating reality to…
Text and Photos by Dr. Norris Frederick “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” — William James[1] As I awake one morning, I lie in bed thinking about the classes I…
by Dr. Norris Frederick My family preferred to deal with challenges and craziness with humor, thus the plaque my sister Virginia gave to me on a recent birthday, “Just remember: as far as everyone…
By Dr. Norris Frederick Third and final in a series on death The recent solar eclipse was almost total here in Charlotte, and a large number of people gathered on the Queens University campus to…
by Dr. Norris Frederick The fall semester – finally – has come to an end. And even though I don’t have a real job – like welding, for example – I’m exhausted, just as I…