On May 15, 1986, the Associated Press (AP) published a two-paragraph press release honoring three men in Moscow. Alexi Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov and Boris Baranov willingly volunteered to save half…
Ifthere was anything you noticed right away, it was the fact that he loved to dance. Blake Hunter was both my friend and my choreography instructor. He was a fire…
We are all getting out of the groove of Christmas break, and if you are anything like me, you spent most of your break sleeping until 2 p.m. and watching…
“Clogging” is a word associated with several ideas: wooden shoes, Irish dancing and toilets are ones that I hear a lot. For me, it is a part of life, as…
My room was in shambles after a prolonged, desperate search for a red and green Christmas card envelope. Drawers I had pulled out lay empty on the floor. Empty grocery…
My room was in shambles after a prolonged, desperate search for a red and green Christmas card envelope. Drawers I had pulled out lay empty on the floor. Empty grocery…
The start to 2016 couldn’t have been more dramatic at my brother’s house in Georgia. On New Year’s Eve, he and my sister-in-law went to a show to celebrate their…
I must admit that it has become unsettling to walk into a classroom to see 25 college students’ heads bent over their desks, eyes glued to their phones. Even more…
Until you have spent any time in Yellowstone during the winter, you have no idea what cold is. The recent Oscar-nominated film “The Revenant” tells the story of Hugh Glass,…
Grwing up in the ‘90s and early 2000s, before the advent of smartphones, my childhood friends and I played an awful lot of pretend. Every Sunday after church, the auditorium…