Last week, an interesting case was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court. The question? Whether or not a 75-year-old Alaskan native should be allowed to pilot his personal hovercraft on…
As I settled into my second row seat in my afternoon class, I glanced down at my left wrist to find nothing but the absence of time and lack of,…
Go ahead, read it again. Black lives matter. There’s no need to add any qualifiers to that. No “all lives matter” or “police lives matter” or even “innocent lives matter.”…
There comes a time in a person’s life when their childhood hero is unmasked or removed from their pedestal. This happened to me this summer as I read Harper Lee’s…
I’ve never actually sat in on a Hollywood film studio meeting — where executives decide which projects to fund and which to bury — but I imagine a typical conversation…
James Walter Braddock was born in Hell’s Kitchen in New York in June 1905. He was the son of immigrants from Ireland and lived a life that seemed to allow…
A comic created by Mitchell Brooks. Web Comic – ‘Relatives’ was last modified: by Mitchell Brooks
The problem: The last few weeks have been hectic. Between our busyschool schedule, packed afternoons of activities and cultural outings,I’ve been unable to keep up with my posts. The solution:…
Idon’t know what it is with me and frogs. Ever since I bought a house four years ago, I’ve had a regular stream of amphibian visitors hopping around inside. I’ve…
Before I came to England, I thought I understood the British affinity for tea. I didn’t realize that the average Brit drinks (I’m not kidding) eight cups of tea per…