they accused me of being 'morbid' to bring up the dead--and my husband, instead of saying, "Kids, remember that your mother loved her sister and brother, it's not morbid to bring up people you love"--which is what I would have said had they been my husband's siblings (that's ha...
For Gordon Hempton, it started with an experience known to many people@“I was lying in the bed in the springtime about a year ago@The sun was shining@The birds could be singing@They should be singing@Βut I was hearing none@I knew my life was going to be different.” Hempton’s ey...
To begin with, what if some families can’t afford uniforms? What if that family has more than one or two children in school?Uniformsare a financial burden to poor families, but there can be solutions. Theschoolcan pay for them or pay for a part of them. But, some schools are that ...
Students can write their own alternative endings, or accounts of what happened before or after the story. They can fill in an interval in the story that is not depicted, or only depicted visually. Another great exercise is to take a prose passage from a traditional novel and rewrite it as...
Don't let your life slip through your fngers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying. Don'...
Parents might be worried because they lose connection with their child as he or she spends lots of time in an alternative universe, which is unknown to the parent. Be involved in your child’s activities. It is too easy to dismiss this with ‘I have no time for such nonsense’, but ...
Just How Bad Is Inflation Now? President Donald Trump promised to lower costs on his first day in office. This is how it’s going so far. Tim SmartandJaclyn Jeffrey-WilenskyApril 11, 2025 How to File a Tax Extension If you need extra time to file your tax return, you can request...
If playing for room, board and books were such a colossal injustice, there is a readily available alternative for basketball players intent on a professional career: the NBA Developmental League. Yet almost none of them choose it, despite the fact that the players are paid and there is no ac...
School dining halls can provide a wide choice of foods that are safe for all kids. They can even send home suggestions for bag lunches that don't include peanuts. People should be willing to sacrifice a particular food if it might save a child's life. All schools should ban peanuts and...
exhausted, participants gave more and more incentive answers to combat boredom: A British study took these findings one step further, asking subjects to complete a creative challenge (coming up with a list of alternative uses for a household item).One group of subjects did a boring activity ...