In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

A few school districts -- Paterson, Irvington, Trenton and Atlantic City -- are also scheduling closings on certain Islamic holidays.

While Easter shopping is the window to spring, back-to-school is the doorway to fall and the holidays. So back-to-school shopping is a really important momentum builder.

You know how the English are always like, 'It's so rainy, that's why we're so miserable'? Come to Montreal! You're somebody who thinks you've been through bad weather, and you have no clue. Shut up.