Phynart Studio/E+/Getty Images We’re halfway through July — depending on where you live, there may be just a few weeks left until school starts again. And for roughly half of American parents, that’s enough to make them wince. From new clothes and shoes to notebooks, pens, a backpack, and possibly a crazy expensive calculator, back-to-school...
FOX/FOX Image Collection/Getty Images I love a good themed binge sesh. There are obvious choices, like Christmas episodes of your favorite TV shows, but as August inches closer and closer, I’m ready for back-to-school episodes of sitcoms. There’s nothing quite like an early-in-the-season episode that sets up a whole new setting for characters, with new...
FatCamera/E+/Getty Images It may be summer, but schools are already looking to the 2025-2026 academic year… and it’s tough out there. No one ever said teaching was easy (and if someone does they’re wildly uninformed), but ever since the pandemic, it seems this vital profession has become even more challenging. From underfunded schools to increasing...
FG Trade/E+/Getty Images The heat dome that covered the eastern U.S. has lifted, and while that means many of us are breathing a (mercifully cooler and less humid) sigh of relief, the memory of how impossible it felt to function under such conditions is still fresh. I think my son put it best when he...