We have a custom of taking our new teenagers on a one on one trip of their choice.   Technically speaking, Zorg won't be 13 until e...

When on a Summer's Morn by William Henry Davies When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear...

 Klenda has been interested in cooking for as long as I can remember, so, when I got an ad for Great American Home Baking , I thought she ...

 Last week we went up to NJ to visit my folks.  For extra bonus family time, my niece was visiting from Washington state! Was she as cra...

The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innis...

We recently watched this short: What was the moral of the story? Choclo and Oob: Don't kill yourself to prove something is dangerou...

I had very little part in this production.  When I suggested they could do a play, I was thinking they would do a just a scene or so.  ...

Not everything in Beowulf seems heroic now.  What about all that bragging?  The text says that Beowulf bragged humbly! Some of that is a ...

I first encountered Beowulf when I was 5 1/2, reading a collection of "literature for children."  My mother had given me the bo...

Leisure What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the bough...