"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait." My mom has been telling me this phrase since I was only nine years old and I recall not having a single clue to what it meant. My skills in the French language were basic as I only knew introductory phrases like "hello" and "my name is." In a literal sense this saying means "if the youth only knew, if age only could."..
Imagine you are running around a ropes course facility, pool noodle in hand, surrounded by your entire high school junior class during a sorry excuse for a team-building game of tag. This simple childhood game sounds fun and innocent on the surface; however, I have seen past the lie. I know the true meaning of tag--utter disaster...
The world of Pokémon has one goal: to have fun. Well, my childhood mind believed it as I played in a seemingly never-ending life of digital extravagance. However, thinking back with a more mature mind, I can begin to understand why my mother always saw my treasured Game Boy, the lifeblood of my youth, as a wolf in sheep's clothing...
"Mr. Cole, I ate a rock, and it was the most awesomest thing ever," said Jack as I took him to the Nurse's Station. I was not guiding him there for the rock incident, though; the rock was the cherry on top of all the shaving cream he had devoured a half hour earlier. This ten-year-old dietary nuisance was one of the ten fifth-graders living in Pine cabin during week six of New Life Ranch's Summer Camp 2014...
My high school has its own dragon’s lair, if you subscribe to the notion that knowledge is worth its weight in gold. This lair is the Physics Demo Lab, where instead of piles of gold guarded by dragons, you’ll find near a hundred physics demonstration kits looked after by piglets—not the pink, squealing variety, but us, the members of the Physics Interest Group...
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