Last week, we picked up our 5-year-old son from his public kindergarten in Beijing. On the way home, he proudly recited a ...

Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...

Here is a list of what is happening at the McDowell County Public Library in June. All ages—Maker Mondays, at the YMCA Multipurpose Room from 11 a.m. to noon. Beaded Plants: Do you lack a green thumb ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

The best poems about sport are not usually about success, rather they approach sport from alternative perspectives.

COMMENTARY: Faith is the acknowledgment that we are creatures of destiny. Consequently, we have Someone to thank for our ...

The gentle, playful illustrations give kids more than 100 things to find in their details, coupled with the rhyming poems offer an introduction to “big kid” verse that emerging readers can ...

This bear was released when the company, Ty, initially decided to cease production on Beanie Babies. I guess happy endings do ...

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest had a seriously dramatic finish – one that probably gave organisers a minor heart attack. Following another year in which this strenuously non-political event was ...