Snow affords us an opportunity to care for one another. We can shovel for an elderly neighbor, and make crossing safe for pedestrians. Whether shoveling a sidewalk or providing health care to Americans -- we could all use altruism this season.
Monday marks the first day of winter and I've put together some poems for the occasion. I've overlooked the classics hoping for a few that might be new to you.
Let's leave Tiger with his ghosts, and turn away from stories that humiliate and celebrate infidelity. Let the ghosts of philanthropy, humor and possibility remind us of what is important.
I was outside the other day when my twin, eleven year old neighbors, Cindy and Sandy came walking home from school. They are getting so tall, If I squ...
This year my husband and I are on sabbatical from our respective universities, so we packed up loads of books, two children and four laptops, and moved to Paris.
Along with the holidays come many questions about alcohol -- the good (a little red wine), the bad (hard liquor) and the ugly (sugary drinks made with hard liquor!).
'Tis the season... for stress? NBC Dateline reports that 41% of people interviewed said that the holidays are as stressful as a job interview. In other words, "very stressful."
Like other evergreens, mistletoe --a parasitic plant that attaches to other trees-- remained green in winter, even as the trees in which it hung were "dead."
Usually about Thanksgiving, soap opera actors and actresses start decorating their trees on the set of their house at the studio and usually there is something dramatic occurring 'round that tree.
Plenty of writers proceed without courses, without MFAs. They read voraciously, and learn about writing from reading, the way we learned to write before there were courses in it.
I always track the latest health research, the newest recommendations by doctors and experts, the best health books and products. So this year I decid...
The most painful thing about using food to comfort ourselves during the holidays (or any other time) is that it is only a temporary solution. After the food is gone, whatever you ate about is still there.
New Security Action released this video over the holidays as part of a concerted effort to call for the closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Here are some facts about the prison at Guantanamo Bay:
The other day, my sister called me to say she just heard a news report about a boy in Boise, Idaho who got his tongue stuck to a pole. Yes, just like...
We were one of six magazines invited to decorate rooms at the U.S. State Department and Blair House, the president's guest house--and we had to get gorgeous, green decor installed by December 4
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: COP15 Cop-out? Copenhagen climate talks stalled in the last days -- or are they? Our special coverage continues... PLUS: A...
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Corruption is ambient now. A shell with a dazzling, pixilated surface. It's like a Diamondvision in the shape of wind-tunnel. Products, celebrities, Christmas, gunships appear and do their vaudeville routine.
It wouldn't be the holiday season without hearing Ronnie Spector Christmas songs rocking around your radio dial. I spoke with the icon and former Ronette frontwoman in the business about the holidays.
Unlike many couples whose outside interests take them in opposite directions, Carol and I were joined at the hip. We did everything together. When she passed away, I was more alone than I had ever been.
The 12 Days of Christmas Homeless Push is rather simple. We've come up with a starter list themed around the 12 Days of Christmas, only this is the 12for12k version.
