My father would be the first to confirm my lifetime membership in the “Rebels from the Start” club. Indeed, even as you read this, I’m quietly using instructional time to teach basic morals, manners and “The Golden Rule” in school, while donning white after Labor Day, so the title of this book was literally SCREAMING…
ABC Breaking US News | US News Videos For the past few years, I’ve been blaming the Kardashians for the decline of civilization. I couldn’t understand why anyone was paying any attention to them, why they were making a fortune, why kids were aspiring to be like them. It was so disappointing to me that…
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of the big summer reading season. So, back by popular demand, I’m offering another Boxes of Books promotion! Many of you have been asking me to do one before the Fourth of July so here you go, my fellow book lovers. All you have to do to get…
As the United States celebrates its birthday today, South Sudan gets ready to celebrate its birthday later this week. The youngest country in the world, South Sudan turns five on July 9. Although the country was founded during a time of peace, children born that year only have memories of violence. Since the war broke…
I’m finding that the only thing keeping me sane in these challenging times is reading. Because I’m disgusted by the lack of education in our country — and, worse, the pride in that ignorance — I’m determined to keep learning, to keep seeking out different voices and to keep trying to understand the world. I…
