Yesterday, one of my student’s told me to stop saying I’m sorry all of the time. Of course, I imagine it does get annoying because I say
Tag: Life
A Tooth Truth: The history beyond the Tooth Fairy
A friend of mine posted a short video on Facebook of her son proudly pulling his tooth out in hopes of ‘getting lots of money’
So you want to survive a bear encounter?
Map showing black bear populations in the US. I didn’t really think about bears living in eastern North Carolina until one ran out in front
Your Last Name: An Ancestral History
I have a friend whose last name is Little. He is 6’5″ and is built like a linebacker for an NFL team. He is by
Cute Aggression; or, why would anyone say they want to eat my baby?!?
It was always slightly creepy to hear that old lady at church say that someone’s baby was ‘so cute (she) just wanted to eat her
The History and a Song: Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
I was born in the early 1980s when the popularity of Canadian born folk-rock/folk-pop singer Gordon Lightfoot was still high. He had many hits in
