My daughter and I learned how to bike in the summer of 1984. She was 7 and I was 32, so I learned first, and then I spent another month pushing her bike and catching her (and her bike) when …
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The first time I learned about Earth Hour, I was in Portland, Oregon. My husband and I had had a nice evening stroll along the Willamette River and were returning to our hotel, tired but relaxed. Yet when the hotel …
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Humans’ attempts to improve themselves go back for centuries. The ancient Babylonians made promises to their gods to repay their debts at the beginning of each year. Medieval knights took vows to re-affirm their commitment to chivalry at the end …
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I cautiously opened the door and there they were—a smiling blue-eyed woman in worn-out jeans and a bulky sweat shirt, and a little girl dressed in a long red gown and a black star-speckled cloak. A tall peaked hat crowned …
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“Every burned book enlightens the world.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign that celebrates the freedom to read. It brings together librarians, publishers, journalists, teachers and readers in support of the freedom to seek and …
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By the time you read this post, the Olympic torch may have already made its way to the Olympic Stadium in London, and its flames, which historically commemorated the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, will …
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