10 Facts about Martin Luther King Jr.
While MLK Day isn’t until Monday, his birthday would have been today. So I whipped up a quick video of 10 facts about Martin Luther King Jr. Hopefully there’s a…
A.A. Milne’s Christmas poem
A.A. Milne, the author behind Winnie the Pooh, wrote a Christmas poem as part of his collection of short stories entitled “Now We Are Six.” The Christmas Poem, “King John’s…
How about A Christmas Carol?
Everyone knows Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” right? I’ve seen numerous versions of the movie. From the 1951 “Scrooge” with Alastair Sim to the Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged and even…
Bird War origin story?
The Brothers Grimm were ahead of their time, no doubt. But their story titled, “The Dog and the Sparrow” tells a tale of a sparrow that makes life absolute hell…
Edgar Allan Poe: The Sphinx
Two men escape to the countryside to avoid a cholera epidemic. But what they find there may be more horrifying.
Brothers Grimm — The Golden Bird
Three brothers who are total idiots ignore the advice of a kind fox repeatedly. Sometimes the moral of the story in the Grimm stories is hard to find.
Brothers Grimm — Sweetheart Roland
Wicked step mother accidentally cuts off the wrong daughter’s head … then the other one turns into a duck to hide …
Edgar Allan Poe – Lenore
In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Lenore,” the grieving Guy de Vere angrily rejects the traditional mourning of a hypocritical community he blames for his young bride’s death, choosing instead to…
O Henry – Gift of the Magi
Imagine sacrificing your most prized possession to buy your loved one something for Christmas. And they do the same. First published in The New York Sunday World on December 10,…