If you’re tearing up just thinking of Charlotte’s Web, well, you’re not alone. Author E.B. White was quite the animal lover who also had a soft spot for his dear wife Katharine, to whom he was married for an impressive forty-eight years. During her pregnancy with their only child, White “gave voice” to Katharine’s dog, Daisy, …

Just when you thought Mark Twain couldn’t get any cooler, Maria Popova of Brain Pickings digs up another gem that makes us fall in love with him all over again. In the summer of 2011, I chanced upon a lovely Italian edition of a little-known, playful short story young Mark Twain had written in 1865 at age …