I love the bumper sticker that reads: “13.1 Because I’m only half crazy.” It makes me laugh, as do most bumper stickers that require a certain degree of esoteric knowledge…
Comic Demetri Martin likes to point out that worms and bears don’t have much in common until you think about gummy. Then, the similarities become clear. What Martin is pointing…
Edgar Allan Poe’s idea of perfect beauty is frequently associated with living life to its fullest in a short period of time and dying young. Lenore, from his most famous…
Despite a politician’s recent explanation of supply and demand by saying, “If you put the supply out there, the demand will follow,” that is not how the economic principle works.…
We’ve all played hooky once or twice, right? Even your parents have played hooky before. That’s why they were so skeptical of you when you were doing it. But Michelle…
Life was so much simpler when we were kids. We didn’t have to worry about bills, or how what we say could accidentally offend someone else. Heck, even the stories…
When you think of an inspiring athlete, who comes to mind? Jesse Owens, who went to the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi-controlled Germany and proceeded to win four gold medals…
The phrase “take advantage” is a bit strange. It can be quite innocuous with regards to using something. For example, there is nothing too bad about saying, “I’m going to…
Even good things can be bad in excess. I was always taught that moderation is the key in all things. Is it ok to drink that glass of wine? Yes.…
We like it when people achieve great things despite insurmountable obstacles. This is not unique to living in the modern world or being an American; however, this is a big part…
Sometimes I muse considering the first person to pioneer certain things. For example, who looked at mushrooms growing out of a decaying log and thought: “Yum”? Or how about the person…
We all remember that old adage that sports are 90% mental and only 10% physical. I remember thinking that every time I got done with baseball or soccer practice completely…
Fifteen is such an awkward age. Your body is growing; you might not have gotten past the clumsy, gawky, gangly stage yet. You’ve started to look at the opposite gender…
Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” This may be true for love. If you have loved before, you…
Food allergies are nothing new. For two decades, the portion of children with a peanut allergy has essentially tripled. Eggs. Soy. Wheat. Fish. Onions... They’re all common food allergies. Besides…
Whether it’s hiking the rainy hills of Kauai, sleeping over the water in Bora Bora bungalows, exploring inside Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, or looking over the picturesque Matterhorn, there are…
I was once walking through an outdoor festival near my hometown. There was a band playing off in the distance, but I didn’t know them or the song they were…
“Catching some Z’s.” “Crashing.” “Hitting the sack.” “Getting some shut eye.” “Zonking out.” “Getting forty winks.” We have a lot of idioms for sleep. On average, we spend one-third of our…
You may have heard someone say: “You don’t look sick.” Few phrases can be as disheartening to someone battling a lifelong, or chronic, illness. Blood diseases are just one such…
One of the first steps toward fixing any sort of problem is identifying the cause. This is true of nearly any problem. This is true of the crack in the…
When Ellen Ripley used the Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader to pick up the xenomorph queen in the 1986 science-fiction masterpiece Aliens, who would've known the suit was inspiring the next…
The line between genius and madness is often closer than people realize. Don’t tell Dr. Sergio Canavero that he can’t help his patient with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). How many…
“If you half-ass something, you should only expect to get half an ass back.” This was the sort of lesson I learned from my dad. The moral is there, even…
It’s more difficult to prove something to someone than we often imagine. Then again, there are also times when proving something that may or may not exist is relatively easy.…
The term “superfood” is thrown around a lot. It is used for everything from salmon to spinach, from pistachios to pumpkin, from chia seeds to quinoa. When people use the…
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