Jeff Fister Every graduation ceremony has same awkward dynamic06/25/2008This was the first time we had two kids graduate in the same season, and it gave me a chance to compare two entirely different rites of passage. It doesn't take much to revive terror of being late for class05/28/2008Have you ever had that anxious dream about being late for a class in college — even though it’s been nearly 30 years since you were in school? For me, recently, it was no dream. Not even the best technology can predict the next quake04/30/2008"There's no indication there's an impending large earthquake coming from the New Madrid fault zone"