Since we saw how 2021 went, do we really want to do this, again? I know. Any excuse to wear sequins. Or sequined face masks this year. Comedian John Oliver was once quoted as saying: “New Year’s Eve is like the death of a pet....
Truth is every year we bring something to the holidays besides a long gift list (and too little time). Packed in the back of our closets alongside the battered tinsel star, the good silver, and great grandma’s dishes lie our memories –for better or for...
Lincoln called on Americans to observe the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise” after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. “I celebrated Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and...
In my family, we never celebrated Hallmark holidays. Love and respect, my dad taught his girls, should not, could not, be turned on and off like a light switch based a date on a calendar. As we post tributes for Father’s Day, I hold word...
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right,” Telluride local Oprah Winfrey. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello,” Paulo Coehlo. “We must be willing to get rid of the life...
During the holiday season, millions use batteries to power twinkling fairy lights and an endless list of interactive children’s toys. That said, according to online sources, websites of the world’s leading battery brands advise against mixing old and new batteries due to the risk of...
An elderly woman stole an ice cream maker out of a man in a wheelchair’s electric cart. A woman let her kiddo use a games shop floor as a restroom. Another woman bit a cop over a sold-out Elmo. A man fell on purpose so...
It is Halloween, the opening act for the BIG holiday trifecta just around the corner, a night of witches, ghosts and goblins, a celebration of the id that has spread around the globe like a zombie outbreak, (yes, the living dead too), this year coupling...
Cupid’s Day has evolved into the signature day of the year when a gift of any kind ought to express positive sentiments within a primary relationship of any kind: married or partnered, straight or gay – or the one with yourself. Yes, Valentine’s Day seems...
Every Christmas is a palimpsest for the one that came before and the one before and so on back. Memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths– and as unavoidable as carols, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and telemarketers. One of our favorite writer-poets...