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Photo: Stratford School The celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2nd kicks off National Reading Month! At Stratford School, we love to read. And we love to share our passion for reading with our students. Not only does reading enhance a child’s imagination, but it also expands their vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills but most importantly, it develops a love of literature. A wonderful way to encourage your child to read for fun is to have conversations about the books they read. Children love talking about their favorite part of the story, or connecting the story to their own...

Is it too early to start talking about the Met Gala? I thought so, until I heard a certain civilian-turned-actress-turned-royal (Turned civilian again, I guess?) is rumored to show up. In case you haven’t heard, The Sun reported Meghan Markle might attend this year’s festivities, and I’m now devoting all of March and April to figuring out what Meghan Markle’s Met Gala 2020 outfit will be like. While it might seem a little random for Markle to attend, royal stans know her to be quite fond of Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s editor-in-chief, with whom she worked on curating the magazine’s September...

If you are going to tell lies about someone, why bother to print it? I was reading obituaries the other day and saw one of someone I knew.  It was so full of horseshit, that I nearly fell out of my chair, laughing.  The euphemisms they used were astounding - as well as the outright lies.  Here are some examples, and the translations."Mr. Jones was adventurous and free-spirited" - he smoked an astounding amount of pot and got shitfaced a lot and slept around. "Mr. Jones was a community activist and believed in the power of community action" - he...

“More people summit Everest in an afternoon than have made it from Anchorage to Nome on a bicycle,” says the summary of Safety to Nome, a documentary that follows participants of the 2017 Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) in Alaska. The ITI is the human-powered equivalent of the Iditarod, in which participants travel the legendary 1,000-mile course via fat bike, foot, or skis instead of a dogsled. And the filmmakers do not for a second let you forget just how difficult this is—which makes Safety to Nome, available on streaming platforms as of February 25, both incredibly fun to watch and an excellent meditation on why outdoorspeople like to do nearly impossible things. Presiding over the...

Ah, internet debates. Silly disagreements that can turn into viral sensations at the drop of a hat because anyone — no matter how ill-informed — has the ability to weigh in. Today, we’ve discovered a product that’s a direct result of one of the great internet debates of our time. Is it pronounced Gif? Or Jif? This is one of the biggest and most hotly-contested questions of the 21st century. As the humorous moving images have become the best way to spice up a work email or group text conversation, the debate has intensified. So is it a hard or...