I hate it when people talk about the end being in 2012. I am going to wake up in 2013 and laugh my ass off.

That depends on what you mean by "end". One day, billions of years in the future, our sun will become a red giant and our current orbit will actually place the earth inside the sun. Will that be the end? It is possible that still further billions of years in the future our solar system … Read more

With the recent oddball predictions of the end of the world from Harold Camping, and the 2012 Mayan calender ending this year, talk of the end of the world has been common. But just when will it end? Well, here we will be disregarding religious, cultural, or supernatural predictions (there are hundreds of those, we'd … Read more

Main Characters: -Sookan (little girl narrator) -Inchun (sookan's timid younger brother) -Aunt Tiger (the children's aunt) -Grandfather (the grandfather of Sookan and Inchun) -The mother of Sookan and Inchun -Kisa (a family friend and worker at the mother's sock factory)