The stores and the television marketers would have you believe that S’mores are best enjoyed on a warm summer day with hot dogs by a lake. Perhaps the magazine ad executives would tell you that the delightful treat is the best way to calm an anxious tummy after a ghost story by the campfire. These…
Do you remember playing with a Magic 8-Ball as a kid? While it was fun to ask a question, shake the ball, and laugh at the answer, I do not remember ever going to the toy when I needed advice. Can you imagine sitting in an important meeting at work and watching your boss pull…
I have a constant internal battle about my Apple Watch. On the one hand (no pun intended), it’s incredibly helpful to be able to look at my wrist and see the date, the time, the weather, and progress on my personal fitness goals for the day. On the other hand, I don’t always need notifications…
Not every book in The Reading List will be a non-fiction self-help book. Those aren’t in our high school English classes because the stories contained in fictional literature can often teach us just as much or sometimes more than those non-fiction manuals. One great example is To Kill a Mockingbird, a book that is not without…
As a kid, I had a little leather pouch that I had taken from my mom, who picked it up on a field trip to a Native American reservation when she was a kid. Inside it, I kept a very small but very interesting coin collection – at least for a kid. I never met…