Mentors, role models, and wise sages abound at U-M. First-team All-American Naz Hillmon is the one I’m watching.

As the war in Ukraine rages, medical historians at U-M have fresh concerns about COVID-19 and other ‘zoonotic’ spillover events. So do I.

‘May you live in interesting times,’ the proverb says. Sounds more like a curse.

The COVID-19 booster does, in fact, boost, but Season Two of the pandemic is still a drag. A well-known drag.

In 1971, it took an actual Beatle to get you out of jail for marijuana possession.

The return to work on campus signals a new era in this bizarre pandemic.

Pete Seeger’s nod to the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes resonates as the vaxxed and masked return to campus.

You know Ann Arbor is embracing its pre-pandemic self when you hear the Hare Krishnas chanting at Art Fair.

Now that the vaccinated can move freely without fear of imminent death, it’s time to address another pandemic: Selfishness.