You sit cross-legged on the carpeted living room floor of a one-bedroom apartment. Your mail is on the counter, your orange juice in the fridge, your suitcases against the wall — but still, this place ...

Austen Whibley, of Silver Spring, Md., doesn't mind that she's different. The 9-year-old likes being among the roughly 13 percent of people in the world who are left-handed. It gets her noticed. Her ...