When he was 22, living in New York City, and right out of college, Barack Obama dated Genevieve Cook. The relationship was significant to warrant ment...
Sarah Alban | Posted 05.14.2012
This teensy little post will soon lie buried, like today, beneath piles of newer items anyway. Besides, if all this fails you could delete it. So post. What's the worst that could happen?
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Posted 12.16.2011
This is a regular column featuring original fiction by and for high school students, provided by Figment.com, an online community writing site for you...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 11.01.2011
A few weeks ago, I invited readers to send their orphan heirlooms home. By this, I mean returning family treasures to descendants of their original ow...
AP | JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 10.22.2011
SALT LAKE CITY — The father of a Utah mother who has been missing for two years said Monday he will fight the release of pages from her diary. B...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 10.09.2011
About a decade ago, I accidentally launched into a sub-hobby of genealogy - one I refer to as orphan heirloom rescues. The idea is to return items to descendants of their original owners.
Posted 05.25.2011
It's a rare filmmaker who could juxtapose festive fireworks with brutal gunfire and transition from the inside of a New York coffee shop to a huddle o...
Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 11.17.2011
I never thought I'd say it, let alone do it: I'm keeping a gratitude journal. It's hard for me to even write those words because I know they conjur...
Telegraph | Allan Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
Nazi memorabilia collectors are expected to push the price for the diary and letters of the "Angel of Death" responsible for thousands of murders at A...
Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011
This is not my loss. This was not my divorce. This was the environment in which I was raised. I remember always hearing how couples in those days didn't divorce. I heard that it was news all over Long Beach.
Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011
Thinking about the beauty of the universe; about the fleeting preciousness of life; about the fact that I haven't been outside all day; about the fact I may not have gone outside yesterday either.
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011
I can't believe that Eminem is still into me. I mean, like, you'd think that a tattoo that represents my dedication to Nick would prove to him that I'm totally over it.
Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011
In certain cultures people thrive on conformity. A party line is formulated and chosen. Citizens are expected to enunciate and articulate the party li...
Lily Koppel | Posted 05.25.2011
In our era where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.
TresSugar | Posted 05.03.2012