If you pay attention to young peoples’ social-media posts these days, you are likely to notice that many of them include the tag, #YOLO. YOLO is an acronym that stands for… read more

A few weeks ago, a middle school band director in Colleyville, Texas, was named teacher of the year at his school. A few days later he was arrested and admitted to exchanging… read more

In the last six months a perfect storm has been brewing in European countries, but it has nothing to do with the weather. Instead it involves the European currency, the Euro, huge … read more

Long before The Avengers assembled on the silver screen to save the world from an extraterrestrial threat, the Men in Black were already hard at work managing (and covering up)… read more

Once again the Easter eggs are colored or hidden, the family is at church, and the lilies are aggravating people’s allergies. We read the Easter story and prepare for our… read more

For months many teenage fans of Suzanne Collins’s popular young adult novel trilogy The Hunger Games have had March 23 circled on their calendars. That is the day when The… read more