graduation

When you think of Jim Carrey, you think funny.  Classics like The Mask and Ace Ventura usually come to mind. It's hard to picture him putting on a serious face to give one heluva commencement speech but he did.  Calling it compelling and inspirational would be an understatement...

The good news?  You are blessed with mounds of friends and family and their kids have all made it through 12 years of school and they're heading off to the real world.

Graduation is just around the corner. Whether you will be going to a high school, college, or kindergarten graduation - they always seems to draw out far too long! A new trend make make the graduation ceremonies take even longer. Kids wanting to take a selfie when they get their diploma...and if you can imagine how much longer that would take if every kid did that! Should 'selfies' be allowed duri

It's graduation season . . . so how much money should you give a new graduate as a graduation gift these days?  According to a new survey in the Wall Street Journal, people give an average of $111 for a high school graduation . . .

The end of school is extremely busy not only for your kids but for parents. I can barely read my calendar and my husbands to the point of calling me every morning to ask me where he needs to be that night. We are seriously running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

A wayward 150-pound black bear caused a major commotion last Thursday when it disrupted a graduation ceremony at a middle school in Bakersfield, CA. Hey, what’s the big deal? Maybe it just wanted a diploma.

I guess we feel like giving someone $100 to Applebee's will soften the blow of $200,000 in student loan debt? According to Time and the National Retail Federation, Americans will spend more than $4.7 BILLION on graduation gifts this month and next month.

Angeline Lavasseur didn't want to break the time-honored tradition of graduates walking to get their diplomas at graduation. The 18-year-old girl, who has been confined to a wheelchair throughout her childhood after being born with spina bifida, recently walked across the stage to pick up her diploma at Pinckney High School's graduation in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Two high school seniors at Westfield High School in Massachusetts wanted to entertain their fellow students by staging a lightsaber battle in the school cafeteria during lunch. According to onlookers, one of the seniors entered the cafeteria from one side, and the other from another, and then they met in the middle for a 30-second showdown with their toy lightsabers.