life of riles

With so much happening on streaming services these days, the old notion of what a movie is feels outdated. A great limited series like The Q...

The Oscar nominations come out tomorrow, so this is a good time to post my Top 10 movies of 2019.  In years past I've only included movi...

I posted my Top 10 movies of the 2010s earlier this month, so now it's on to the Top 10 books of the 2010s. 10. Beautiful Ruins (2...

End-of-the-decade lists are definitely making the rounds right now. Seems like the list makers are putting their decade lists out first, wi...

Paragraph Planet is a cool website that publishes one 75-word paragraph every day. I've been following them on Twitter for a while, and...

Getting a little late for an end-of-the-year list, but what the hell. I read 43 books in 2015. The books on my list weren't necessarily ...

So yeah, it's been a while. You know, life and whatnot. I haven't felt the urge to write anything for the blog in quite some time,...

Before I had kids I wasn't much of a zoo person. I do have a few fond childhood memories of trips to the zoo, but they're pretty f...

I love YouTube. I like checking out the latest viral videos as much as the next guy, and I can't tell you how many times YouTube has bai...

To be honest, I was just going to skip X this year. But then something happened this morning. Every Monday I give my students a vocabulary...