Janice M Cauwels, PhD

• How is it that high school students are old enough to have sex but not old enough to cross a street without a guard present to stop traffic? (more…)

Link to the memorial page for Spud, who passed away on 15 September 2011.

In the spring of 2009 at his request I arranged for Spud Murray, the full-time batting practice pitcher for the New York Yankees from 1960-68, to meet Jane Fonda while she was performing on Broadway. (more…)

It was on this date some year during my crabby adolescence that I decided that the Virgin Mary must have had an understudy. (more…)

The current newsworthiness of Ford Motor reminds me of a car of theirs that hated chocolate ice cream. (more…)

My scariest experience in the New York City subway involved neither crime nor craziness. (more…)

Aspects of literature that occur in reality can be highly traumatic. (more…)