It's 5 a.m. and my alarm goes off. There's not a hint of daylight in the sky. I blearily plod downstairs to the kitchen and fumble around for a carton of eggs, some frozen veggie sausages, spinach and corn tortillas. As I prepare myself and my wife a gigantic pre-dawn...

As we've been reminded innumerable times over the past few weeks, one hundred years ago the "unsinkable" Titanic sank into the North Atlantic, taking with her more than 1,500 lives. The tragedy has made for some epic storytelling.

Of all the stories, one of the most extraordinary is that of...

I was going to start with "Duck, Duck, Goose" (perhaps the greatest of all games), but I wasn't counting on the mud. I was told we were going to be teaching in a community center, but this particular "community center" was a...

The number of ways in which I was a teenage nerd was legion. Debate nerd. Drama nerd. Band nerd. Model United Nations nerd. Comedy nerd. Pottery club nerd. (I'm not making that up.) And finally, philosophy and spirituality nerd.

Who could blame me? You try growing up in a...