Recently, I have spent a lot of time learning and playing games. In the past week, I have played about 40 rounds of golf, 20 games of chess against a computer and multiple charade-like games with some friends. I used to hate sitting down with my family and being forced to participate in “family game […]

Rumpelstiltskin is a fairytale written by the Grimm brothers. The main points I heard as a child is a tale where a man promises a king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. This is a lie. Rumpelstiltskin can spin straw into gold and agrees to help the girl in exchange for things. On […]

Think very hard. What’s the most dangerous animal in the world? It’s not a bear, or snake, or lion. It’s probably the mosquito. This is the tiny annoying bug everyone knows about and is just irritated with. It buzzes around your head and there seems to be thousands of them whenever you go outside in […]

Why is it ok for a man to date a younger woman, but it’s strange for a woman to date a younger man? It isn’t unacceptable, but people think differently about it. The double standards in our society are incredibly harmful. When sex is discussed, women are often seen as two things. If they’re virgins […]

As people age, they begin to lose their vision, and their ability to hear decreases. There is also a slowdown in response time. There is no research saying that older drivers cause more crashes, but older drivers have a much higher death rate if in an automobile accident. But, there are researches according to DWI […]

The fear of clowns is called coulrophobia. While many people aren’t terrified of clowns, they are unnerved by them. There are a few different possibilities as to why clowns make people uncomfortable. The first is clowns are tricksters. It’s their job to make people laugh and play pranks on people. I personally don’t like when […]

Math sucks. I don’t like it at all. A few weeks ago, someone said, “You’re not very good at math, are you?” All I could think to say was, “Hmm, what gave me away? The fact I am an English major, or that I need my fingers to do simple addition?” I couldn’t even go […]

In fourth grade my class spent a week trying to learn how to write the alphabet in cursive. We would have a workbook and trace the letters, then do it on our own. After the week, I kind of forgot about it. But it has helped in certain situations. I don’t write in cursive; I […]