Author: Reggie Van Stockum
Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. is a lawyer, teacher, biologist, writer, guitarist, and recently an actor living on his family's old farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Santa Clara University, and a Masters and PhD. in Biology from the University of Louisville. He also has his Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. He practices law from offices in Shelbyville, Kentucky concentrating his legal practice in environmental law. His biologic research is in historical phytogeography.
Dr. Van Stockum, Jr. has published numerous books, articles, and short stories in the areas of law, science, and creative writing. Eighteen of his titles are available on Amazon in hardback, softback, and Kindle formats.
Shakespeare Sez, (part 1), “All the World’s a Stage” (a podcast)
WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT JOHN CHARLES FREMONT?
WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT JOHN CHARLES FREMONT? You don't, if you're not into the west. Or care about how Kit Carson guided the way [he was born in Kentucky]. Before Brigham Young founded Salt Lake City [what a great place to name a city]. And he used Fremont's notes to get there! Before Mexico [...]
A Shared Meal (mini-podcast)
A Plague on us: The beginnings of Pandemics!(mini-podcast)
A PLAGUE ON US: THE BEGINNING OF PANDEMICS!
A PLAGUE ON US: THE BEGINNING OF PANDEMICS! I suppose we had forgotten. Until we got our own pandemic. Didn't Salk and Sabin take care of these things? More about them later. Another article. That's Polio. Let us start, then, at the beginning. Except that we can't go that far back in antiquity. [...]
The Modern Regulation of Environmental Protection In Kentucky
© 2020 Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. By Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. (1) (Office of General Counsel, Kentucky Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, ca. 1980). (2) How does one begin a study of environmental history? Even that phrase is a little bit squirrely. Is it the human upon which we [...]
Decipherment! (mini-podcast)
A SHARED MEAL
A SHARED MEAL In this year, 2020, we are under attack, attacked by a creature that can't reproduce without us. That, to the extent that it eats, eats us. We can't see it, but we can breathe it. Passing it on in little airborne droplets of mucus. Covid-19 [Corona Virus Disease, 2019].(6) Almost [...]
Decipherment
DECIPHERMENT It's a writing thing. I do it all the time. At times, I've made a living from it. The reading of words backward. Trying to break the code as to what is really meant, what is left out, and what is the true thinking really going on. Writing is not the science of mathematics. [...]