Target and Wall-Mart can sell them backpacks and new sneakers

Designing The Back-To-School Scent

We at The School Bored always want students to be inspired…

Austin: The Greatest City Not to Move To

Oh, it’s happened again. Austin, Texas has been lauded in another prominent publication; this time it’s National Geographic Traveler with a six…

the conversation i never had

I know he’s got at least some money, because he’s buying Grey Goose. People with money don’t buy cheap vodka, or cheap rum, or cheap whiskey. They invest in the…

Weekend Diversion: The Horror And Beauty of California’s Wildfires

The pictures of Stuart Palley tell a story that no words can.

“the way to create art is to…

Goodbye, Dan.

I guess it’s true that only the good die young.

I was driving home yesterday from an editor’s meeting with our new staff for fall when I received a…

I’m Being Framed on Ashley Madison — No, Actually!

Exposed! A massive number of Ashley Madison accounts have been leaked — ending a great deal of both affairs and marriages. “He said…

The Hardest Test

Lift up the neediest.

Attract the brightest.

Atone for the past.

Can one middle school in San…

My Generation is Just Awful, and Colleges are Making it Worse

Millions of narcissistic little jerks, reared by an uncommonly hysterical generation who instilled in their children the…

“I Could Have Been a Racist”

My story pitch that was rejected from NPR.

My name is Amandine. Well, let me tell you my old names first. I was born Kelly Marie…

The Ghost Grid of California City

Time was getting hazy by this point.

Part of this was deliberate. “If we take the new experience, we stop time — and that’s all I really…