In “The Merchant of Venice,” Shakespeare says: “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” He encourages us to live with laughter, for laughter and humor are the antidotes that lighten serious matters and bring daily joy. In his short story “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper,” Mark Twain encourages this cultivation of humor and…
Michael Taube: The Bible Has Been Banned in a School District Located In… Utah?!
Commentary “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t,” Mark Twain wrote in “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World” (1897). Here’s a recent example where fiction would have been more plausible to believe than the truth that actually unfolded. A U.S. school district…
Which to Choose: Mark Twain’s Short Story, ‘The Five Boons of Life’
Throughout our lives, we desire many different gifts but rarely desire death. We come to fear our end and so seek what we think are better gifts, rather than face what is the end of all mortals. Yet, in his short story, “The Five Boons of Life,” Mark Twain focuses on how we should see…
A World-Class Gift for a Bargain Basement Price
For most of us, the daily mail brings bills, advertisements, a magazine or newspaper, political circulars in the appropriate season, and the occasional holiday or birthday card. But a personal letter is as rare as a blizzard in July. For two centuries, the U.S. Postal Service has maintained a dead letter office, the cemetery of…
Lost in Excess: Mark Twain’s Short Story, ‘Hunting the Deceitful Turkey’
Temperance is a very undervalued and much ignored virtue. Though we usually associate temperance with food and drink, we should apply it to everything else in our lives for it brings clarity and order. In his short story, “Hunting the Deceitful Turkey,” Mark Twain shows that surfeit, or excess, in anything leads to trouble. When…
Full Steam Ahead: Mark Twain’s Short Story, ‘Mark Twain: A Child’s Biography’
The haphazard, changing nature of life can make it difficult to stay true to one’s self. But if we surrender to change, we sacrifice our chance to find our destiny. In his short story, “Mark Twain: A Child’s Biography,” Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) shows how he stayed true to himself throughout all of life’s…
Mark Twain House: A Grand Home for an American Writer
Volumes have been written about the quintessentially American author who chose an experience as a Mississippi riverboat pilot as the name by which he would pen his works. The term “mark twain,” a steamboat depth measurement, became Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s pseudonym by which classic literary works such as “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Prince and…
‘Is He Dead?’: Mark Twain Comes Back to Life
January 7, 2023
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To read a play rather than watch it performed is a bit like eating a beef burrito without the accoutrements of salsa, guacamole, or onions. You get the meat of the thing, but it lacks all flair. The test of this recipe is simple. Have your teenagers read Shakespeare’s “Henry V.” Next, have them watch…
2022 A Year of Toil, Trouble, and Yet Hope for Many Americans
The following article represents five days on the road driving through Arizona, California, and Nevada, listening to everyday people sharing their personal experiences of 2022 and their hopes for the year ahead. For some, the year was one of challenges and tragedy, and for others, it was a time for understanding and healing. Michael Sponsel’s…
Theater Review: ‘Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool’
NEW YORK—The thought of death or, to be more specific, the end of one’s life can be quite overwhelming, especially when you realize it can happen without any warning whatsoever. The cause could be a heart attack, a coconut to the head, or simply holding one’s breath for too long at the wrong moment. This…
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