Singer/songwriter David Gray writes about seconds and moments that rarely occur in his song "Fugitive"; he describes how it's rare that people get a twinkle in their eye, but it happens, if only for a second. It happened to me yesterday at the Museum of Science and Industry.

After grading 1200 essays in four months the boys and I took a celebratory ( Read more... )

Today we honor an icon of children’s literature, Dr. Seuss. And even though we know his books by heart, the rhyme and rhythm, it’s rare that we remember what he went through to get published.

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