An Hour A Day

For Christmas my younger son, Gregory, gave me a 2000-piece Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle of Cinque Terre, on the Italian Riviera.  I do love j...

Jerome K. Jerome's hilarious 1889 novel Three Men in a Boat prefaces each chapter, in the style of the period, with a brief preview of ...

The Spanish existentialist theologian/philosopher Miguel de Unamuno wrote in his masterwork The Tragic Sense of Life that work is "the...

I have written before about my unfortunate addiction to Sudoku, acquired last summer as I did research for my chapter book Annika Riz, Math...

As readers of this blog know, I like to have a party on the last day of class, and I LOVE if I can have a party featuring themed food that c...

I have read many an inspirational essay and heard many a motivational talk on the good of failure: failure frees us from the tyranny of the ...

I write often about my perfect days. But today I'm here to tell you that some of my days are decidedly imperfect. This is one of them.  ...