Day 2 – Sunday, March 15th, 2020 Sunday Morning WWF & The Egg Hunt My brother Mike and I loved to watch WWF wrestling every Sunday morning at 10 AM.  Too often though, our mother would insist we leave the house prior to the end of the hour-long mania so we could get to Mass […]

The Last Handshake – Prologue On Wednesday, March 11th, my professor emerged from the conference room where I had just spent the previous 90 minutes defending my dissertation and said, “Are we still shaking hands?” “Yes,” I said, “for now.” My professor then extended his hand and said, “Congratulations, Dr. DeWitt!” and gave me a […]

If you are like me and have active teenagers that are involved in high school sports then you have probably spent a lot of nights in gyms or at fields supporting your child.  For the most part, the activities that my children are involved with are what I would call “objective sports” where achievements are […]

For context, I will explain to you that March Madness is the name for the NCAA basketball tournament that begins every year in March.  I hope you knew that.  The one-and-done nature of this national championship played out over 3 weeks every spring creates a days long, non-stop basketball frenzy where business production decreases and […]

Blogging and writing are out of my element so excuse the poor grammar, but the events involving Covington Catholic High School at our national’s capital this past weekend have been a curious study in who we have become as a community. The original image that first emerged from the media was disturbing.  A white, privileged, Catholic, […]