My son is in fifth grade ... me for a phone before the end of the school year so that he may keep in touch with his friends over the summer, but I'm very hesitant. Since he claims that all of ...

The Union County Board of County Commissioners, in collaboration with the Union County Shade Tree Advisory Board, has announced the winners of this year’s Arbor Day Poetry Contest. Each year, in ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

The hands-on experience gives students the chance to slow down and thoughtfully decorate the butterflies with colors that ...

Erin Rooney Doland once had so many things that she literally couldn't move. It wasn't until she analyzed her reasons for ...

The French author’s award-winning memoir, “Sad Tiger,” is a richly literary and starkly shattering account of childhood ...

April 4, was my grandmother’s birthday. If they were still alive, my grandfather would have written her a poem, as he did for her every birthday, every wedding anniversary ...

The esteemed critic Harold Bloom, a native speaker of Yiddish, called Chaim Grade one of the four greatest writers in the ...

Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other ...

Sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other wounded children like him: We will never stop caring ...

Vance, chosen by the People's Literary Festival board, aims to promote advanced literacy and showcase poetry's diverse forms. Since he was 5 years old ... until the third grade, and creating ...

I knew Mikal when he was in third grade ... me. Over time, when I hugged him, he began to hug me back. His deep intelligence and creativity emerged. He showed promise in art, writing and poetry.