Tied Up Today

Wearing festive paisleys on navy blue to celebrate our 51st anniversary! The pin on my pocket says "I'm in love with my wife."...

To honor the birthday on 1 September of Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), I thought about the tunes in his most famous composition, "Canon ...

On Friday I celebrated today's anniversary of the announcement of the structure of DNA (in 1953), so I'm wearing these topsy-turvy p...

For Mother's Day I asked Beth to choose a tie. She visited my tie blog to see the full set of choices, and the first six she looked at h...

For the sheer length of name and title, it's hard to beat Sir Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck , Lord of Nyenhuis, Peckedam and Gellicum, bor...

This tie with paisleys was chosen by my brother (-in-law) Mark Wollenweber for me to wear to honor his 54th birthday today! This is also the...

Special occasions for today include birthdays for Pete Seeger (1919), Frankie Valli (1934), Marcel Dupre (1886), and Bing Crosby (1903). It ...

Today marks the birthdays of mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752) and physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819). The swirling paisle...

Today I'm dressed more formally than usual because I'm attending a funeral service for the mother of a very special family friend (D...

July 13 is "Embrace Your Geekiness Day," also called "Embrace Your Inner Geek Day." Today's paisley tie on a lilac-p...

Beth's brother Mark (Wollenweber) has come from Rhode Island to visit us! He was willing to select my tie for today, and when he saw pai...

I chose this tie to celebrate Amy Graham's birthday! She has worked with me at EKU for a long time. But she wasn't at work today to ...

Today marks the birthday of Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) , who formulated the basic principles of quantum mechanics. He won the Nobe...

Today has tripartite significance in curvy math/geophysics. You may not see the connection as I do, but the ideas of a swinging pendulum, a ...