I love Halloween. I'm thirty-one, but I still love it. I mean, who doesn't love candy? I still live at home. I don't mind it, except for the dinner table. I said to my parents, "I've been sitting...
Still, every now and then, you get guys in here asking for Art. I tell them, "No. No Art tonight," because it鈥檚 the truth, and then these guys usually turn right around and go back the way they ca.....
I met you first when I was six and you were in utero. You weren't there yet. I was six and a half and in Florida on my first vacation by plane. In O'Hare Airport my mother gave me a spoonful of bitt.....
Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This kind of retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstances. If you have not...
Mark Twain delivered this speech on June 9, 1909, at the graduation ceremony of Misses Tewksbury's School in Baltimore, Maryland. Frances Nunnally was graduating and he had promised to attend her gra....
In a recent issue of the "Independent," the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn, has the following utterance on the subject of "Smells": I have a good Christian friend who, if he sat in the front...
I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, but as a human being, a member of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The world is full of...
FIVE musicians in neat evening dress were singing Mozart's Requiem in a bombed-out library, or rather amid a heap of rubble. The rough venue and tight security check had kept down the audience, but t....
FLOWERS and coconut leaves are daily necessities in Balinese life. Along with cooked rice, they are normal gifts to gods as the natives of Bali, 鈥淚sland of Sacrifices鈥? set offerings in front of th...
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, GREat care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in ....