Sir Hugh Underhill

Midwives only turned up if someone was sick with women-problems or there was a pregnancy… or pregnancy loss. That had to be it. She’d conceived and lost the baby. That had to hurt. “Sir Gawain, do you believe in the gods?” He didn’t know. But was that the right thing to say to a child who was still developing his own beliefs and trying to make sense of the world? “I’m not sure,” he said, sticking with…

The article, ‘Elephants are more human than we realize’, by John Martin is all about how behaviors of an elephant can align similarly to those of a human. Martin took his wife’s close affectionate encounter with a wild elephant in Kenya, and he noticed that the elephant wasn’t attacking, it was merely showing affection. From that day on, Martin has been studying the way that elephants can have emotions, just like us, humans. There are multiple sides of an elephant, such as children’s books like…

20 May, 2016 Mettle Theodore Roosevelt said, "Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle". It is the ability to cope with hard times and get through them without having a major melt down. I think it is hard for people to stay strong through tough situations, but I believe that is why not many people show mettle because it is so difficult. I chose this word because there are people in my family who have…