There is (finally) some snow in the news, for the week ending January 11, 2019, as well as accurate tech predictions from the 1990s, a new holiday, a smart toilet, and more.
Jace lives to fish and fishes to live, but when he sets his sights on new game — his wife worries about her friends.
In the news for the first week of 2019 are new laws, great movies, lots of spaghetti, a box full of crickets, and more.
In this story of longing and loss, a man watches his 15-year-old neighbor approach a breaking point and disappear like “dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,” says author Michael Caleb Tasker, winner of the 2019 Great American Fiction Contest.
“You’ve heard of the Christian Science cures where some bedridden person who hasn’t set foot to ground for years gets up and prances down the street? Well, that’s faith operating on will.”
Thomas Paine’s Revolutionary War pamphlet may have changed the course of American history.
Studies show that cardiac mortality surges during Christmas and New Year. Is it the cold, the stress, the overindulgence, or something else?
The tale of an odd friendship between two innocent souls — one young and one old.
“What do the people here know about politics? They hear rumors and they make up fairy tales. If they worked harder they would have more sense.”
Travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, to see the northern lights in style and comfort.
A Thanksgiving tradition, the Macy’s parade originally launched in anticipation of a different holiday. We look at how bands, balloons, and Broadway bring the event to life.
If a long, extravagant meal in the Tuscan countryside is wrong, Sara Jenkins doesn’t want to be right. From the November/December 2018 issue.
The story of the first Thanksgiving may not be as benign as the version in children’s books, but it’s still a remarkable tale of warmth, cooperation, and generosity — traits that continue to define this American holiday.
Stumped on what to talk about on Turkey Day? Avoid potentially awkward subjects with our list of 10 reasonably safe (but potentially interesting) topics.
“His gift of words being still upon him he unrolled once more a prospect of enchanted lands and cities — Vita pieta sensualis, the pride of the eye and fullness of life, many-colored, thrilling, beyond this fog.”
Mae West had aged by the year 1964, but the inner Mae hadn’t changed at all.