I’ve noticed lately that time is starting to pass more quickly than my brain can fully comprehend. I find myself stuttering every time I say, “Two thousand, uh, 10.” I frequently misrepresent my age, unintentionally subtracting a year or two. I think of the ‘90s as being “a few years ago.” (News flash: Even 1999 […]

Want to encourage your young ones to bite into science and history? Spend some time on Discovery.com and tune in to a boggling array of interactive content, powered by the site’s massive archive of information on subjects such as dinosaurs, Egypt, Everest, food, sharks and technology. Don’t miss the News tab, offering video, articles and […]

If my stepdaughter didn’t attend The Paideia School, I’m not sure I would believe everything Bernie Schein writes in If Holden Caulfield were in My Classroom. Paideia is different from any public school, and probably from most private schools. The teachers work in unorthodox ways, and the students thrive because of it. Schein has taught […]

Enjoy dinner and a movie (and maybe a few beverages) at the Movie Tavern, where “movies never tasted so good.” Ticket prices are cheap — a matinee is $6 and evening shows are $7.50. And whatever you choose from the menu will be delivered to your comfortable seat where there’s lots of table room and […]

When Chris “Capt. Stab-Tuggo” Steele and Elaina “Maybelle” Steele began sideshow performing, they had to consider the effects it would have on their two girls, Payton and Ava. They sat down with Payton, the older of the two, and explained that the crazy things she’d been watching Mom and Dad do for years at home […]

An elbow gets thrown into a gut; yells erupt as the jammer sneaks through an opening, moving fast, avoiding eager hands that grab out as she whips past. A crowd of ravenous, crazy-eyed rollergirls races behind her, moving together like a writhing beast; some blocking to protect her, others roaring forward to prevent her escape. […]