Last weekend, the five of us gathered chairs around the small barbecue grill in the backyard and watched a year’s worth of work go up in smoke. This is not the first time it has happened. At our house ...

A pair of 16-year-old snowboarders lost in the wintry Canadian wilderness kept warm until their rescue by building a fire – and using their homework as kindling. The teens didn’t return from the ...

This certainly tops "the dog ate my homework" excuse.Two teens who were lost in the frigid Canadian Wilderness claimed they burned homework to keep warm overnight.The 16-year-old boys who were ...