When the virus first got in the news, I heard the phrase “two years” and (being me) I knew to latch onto that—so that I wouldn’t have a bunch of....

“Mommy, can I go play outside?” When I heard those words coming from a young girl’s mouth, I shook the mother’s hand and said, “You’ve raised your child right!” Children....

Bill Bryson is my favorite writer, and this is from his book about Australia, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country: “Sydney has whole districts filled with palatial houses that....