There are fifty-two cards in a deck, or, if you include jokers, fifty-four. I learned this lesson the hard way, through a game of “52 Card Pickup” initiated by my demonic older brother. While this was a rather unpleasant way to embed this lesson in my head, I haven’t forgotten it since, so you…
Clichés, we learned in our first semester of freshman English class, are to be avoided. Like a literary equivalent to stale saltine crackers, not even the hungriest kids for a joke want to hear them. Although well intentioned, like that one weird family friend who lingered far too long after that family reunion, the…
According to Uncle Ben from “Spider-Man”, “with great power comes great responsibility.” I first learned what it truly meant to have superpowers in the sixth grade when I was given my first super cool slide-out texting phone (I never counted my TracFone as a real phone). To be fair, my first reaction to this…