It took a month to finish my inventory at William S. Reyes Elementary School where I sub-taught Grade One for more than two months until the end of term. It was not really that difficult save extenuating circumstances like an aborted trip to China upset the timetable, a restful...

He is an institution by himself where the young Carolinians ask for his blessings as they Amen before him. He has the patience of Job, and the stamina of Hercules, his home wedged between the Russians and Bob Jones’ construction projects right behind the old Gardenia Hotel....

My Prius C blue car has been scraped in the parking lot a couple of times, once when the perpetrator at a local hotel did not even bother to stop, and I was not able to note down his full plate number, but the scraper was yellow and it left a telltale mark on my hind fender. My...

In the old Roman calendar, the middle of the months of March, May, July, and October, 15th day, is called “Ides” from which other dates were calculated. The most famous in western literature is the Ides of March when Julius Caesar was cut down at the Roman Senate; he was getting...