Man, back in the day, sneaking into that old abandoned house was like an adventure straight out of a movie. We dodged broken glass and old splintered wood. Avoiding anything sharp was all part of the thrill. But now, as a grown-up, I find myself wondering about the folks who once ca...
Lisa Ardill is a twenty-something-year-old woman with a passion for feminism, human rights, neuroscience, literature and film (roughly in that order!). She writes poems and prose to entertain herself, cheer herself up on gloomy days, and keep the spark for creative writing in her brain al...
But, it worked out for the better, for a while: my sister was born three-and-a-half years after I was. Why do I write so much about my parents, when this blog is supposed to be about myself? Again, this goes back to the tag line of this blog: “Adventures in the heart, ...
: All you really need is the SSA’s baby name database andits actuarial tables, which estimate how many people born in a given year are still alive.2 Below, for example, is a chart of Josephs. It shows how many American boys named Joseph were born in each year since 1900. And it ...
Moss The 1964 report that recommended the creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities spoke to the three key words in the title of the present essay: wisdom, leisure, choices. It stated, "Democracy demands wisdom of the average man. Without the exercise of wisdom free institutions ...