Nearly all of us have a favorite teacher from our youth—someone who worked relentlessly to help you reach your potential, someone who opened your eyes to new possibilities, someone who shrink-rayed you and sent you careening into your classmate’s lower intestine. That last one will sound familiar to anyone who’s ever hopped aboard Ms. Frizzle’s Wild Ride, […]
Considering the sheer quantity of baked goods that has traveled coast to coast this holiday season, it would be easy to peg weight loss or fitness as a New Year’s resolution. But let’s be real: same story, different chapter. You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darlings. In fact, you can easily draw inspiration […]
The box-office success of Disney’s Maleficent proves two things: 1) There will always be a vehicle for Angelina Jolie’s cheekbones, and 2) People love a good backstory. For every interesting or marginally interesting fictional character out there, there are clusters of people itching for an origin story (see Exhibits A through Wolverine). Unfortunately, not every […]
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days, with reading and writing and…imminent death? For most of us, the educational system wasn’t always a page-turner. You went to school, ate the cafeteria cookies, played eight rounds of MASH, and came home. Not so in the land of books, where a heapin’ helpin’ of educational […]
Lots of students count down the days till summer break, but for some kids, the shine of sunny days away from school wears off quickly. These kids love school. They miss their friends, their teachers, their books, the playground, the homework (ok, maybe not the homework). Help satisfy their longing for schooldays and the smell […]