Eric Scheske

Frugal Youth I've noticed something new among teens: frugality. For their prom dinner, for instance, the girls were excited that a parent agreed to host the dinner. Every family pitched in a dish for six couples, and the kids had a great dinner without spending $100 per couple

Bullets The Seven Sisters [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant#Denominations]? It rings a bell, but I'm not sure I've heard of the mainline Protestant churches referred to that way. The Sisters are: American Baptists, Disciples of Christ, Congregationalists / United Church of Christ, Episcopalians, Lutherans,

From the Notebooks What can a man like DH Lawrence tell us about the afterlife? He may have intuited quite a bit, even if he didn't understand it himself. In his excellent little book, Studies in Classic American Literature, Lawrence wrote: > The central law of all organic

Graduation Day Alex graduated from high school yesterday. I'm not sure I've ever felt such mellow sadness. I wasn't crying or anything like that. But I was sad, no doubt about it, and if I could turn the clock back and give him another