Today is June 16. What is special about today’s date? It’s Bloomsday, of course. To know Bloomsday, you have to know Ulysses, the literary masterpiece by James Joyce. The entire novel takes...
I was wholly unprepared. No one had warned me. I hadn’t even imagined it. One day, however, I looked in the mirror and I saw the cheeky bastard: A vertical lip line. Where did that slick devil come...
The teacher spoke to an engaged group of second graders, who were enjoying the lesson and raising their hands to join in the discussion. “Did you know that two different words can have the same...