Right now, the precious things that make us feel happy, secure, and hopeful in the U.S. are being sideswiped by other things that have...

American astronomer Carl Sagan  wrote “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” in 1994. The book was inspired by this now...

Unlike weddings and funerals, Thanksgiving is the one occasion each year solely designed to bring family and friends together for the...

A potluck lunch was held in Chelsea last Sunday and 700 or so neighbors showed up! It was the third annual “Longest Table”  party in New...

A red button is blinking on the aerial Google map of Worcester, England, where the image of a large medieval-looking church is located....

The latest Global Peace Index has rated Iceland the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008, followed by...

There’s a new style of wanderlust afoot these days. A real urge that many people feel to go to new places and have different, meaningful...

“Ollie” (2022) is the feel-good story of a yellow lab caught up in the confusing circumstances of the early days of the Covid-19...

Stunning white hellebores (Helleborus niger) have been pushing up through the snow in northern climes these past few weeks. This is not a...

At 3 o’clock in the afternoon of every December 24 for the past 64 years, seemingly everybody in Sweden drops whatever they are doing,...

In a world where everything is disposable, four dedicated artisans toil away every day to keep 80,000 well-used, public school musical...

A weary traveling salesman who found himself disembarking the New Haven train at Grand Central Terminal in the late afternoon of...

“I want to find out what makes people live the way they do and I want to share that with everyone so that we may all learn and grow from...

Everyone has a gift. Something they can do better than anybody else they know. Whether it’s an inborn talent like being able to read a...

“I feel like this is the best page on Instagram hands down!” “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” If you feel like joy-scrolling for a few...

New so-called “supertall” skyscrapers are springing up around the world, redefining the skylines of major cities and challenging the...

Summer has risen over New York City gently, gliding on the wings of a delicate springtime. Temps have been mercifully mild. Blue skies...

“I like to make people happy,” says Emily Margolis. Even complete strangers, apparently. A few years ago, Melody Morrow of New York City...

Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for six years in a row – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. That honor was...

The finest tap water in the world comes from a place in Canada named – appropriately – Clearbrook. That neighborhood of Abbotsford,...

Napoletano Gennaro Lombardi opened the first pizzeria in the U.S., on Spring Street in New York City’s Little Italy in 1905 -- and it's...

Our daughter was a 2-month-old baby and had recently come home from the hospital that Christmas. My husband and I had a lot of hospital...

Before we’ve even finished clearing the table and packing up the Thanksgiving leftovers, the Christmas tree sellers are putting the final...

City folks, especially in New York and Philadelphia are quite familiar with ginkgo trees, not only because of their exotic fan-shaped...

Got 11 hours? Grab a Starbuck’s Trenta (their largest size at 31 oz.) Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino and sit back to enjoy watching the video...

Next time you feel like really getting away from it all, why not sail on down to Tristan da Cunha? It’s the remotest inhabited island on...

Thank ye tech gods for inventing GPS, and the Google Maps lady whose calm and confident navigation gets us where we need to go!...

We are always moving. Crossing passageways from point A to point B, beginning to end, winter to spring, border to border, good to bad,...

One of the most amazing natural wonders of the world is the annual migration of the beautiful orange and black Monarch butterfly (Danaus...

Traverse City, MI Small town ideas sometimes turn into stunning worldwide movements. Long before the popular tiny house trend, were the...

Any book that can hold the attention of a New Yorker riding a jam-packed subway car that's screeching and lurching through the bowels of...

Not enough years ago, I was sitting outside my second story apartment on the stairs outside my door. It was late on Christmas Eve. My son...

One big lesson we learned early on in the pandemic was how much we missed being together with other humans in those everyday social...

For less than the price of a pack of cig’s, you can own an original painting by a noted artist. Or a piece of handmade jewelry, a...

The stunning new public library building in Aarhus, Denmark, seems to float above the shining sea of the city’s revitalized waterfront....

In early spring of 2018, St. Louis-area business attorney Evan Schaeffer decided it was time to go outside and take a walk in the woods –...

Sure, he’s subversive, political, and anti-art-establishment, but England’s mysterious and often-maddening street artist Banksy can sure...

Follow adventure traveler Mike Corey into the Magic Forest near Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala, Mexico, to see one of the most amazing sights of...

When you see a fire hydrant or mailbox or trash can magically highlighted by waves of concentric painted ripples, you do take notice --...

Maybe you think about it once a year – that first blistering day in June that catches you off guard, before you’ve put the AC units back...

Home. You can go back home, no matter what the tropes say. You can have laughs and yummy food and good conversations and hugs. You can...

One thing we’ve learned to appreciate over the past year is the nurturing need to nest. Not just the act of staying safe and healthy at...

Nate, a high school student in Michigan at the time, sent this letter to FCKH8.com, an activist organization for gay youth, who posted it...

“My favorite things to doodle are monsters, aliens and food,” says 11-year-old Joe Whale, aka “The Doodle Boy,” the creative wunderkind...

When Omarr K. Rambert, a recent UCLA School of Law graduate, found out on January 8 that he had passed the California Bar Exam, he was...

Singer-songwriter Clint Buffington didn’t write Jim Croce’s 1973 hit “Time in a Bottle.” He wasn’t even born yet. But it could easily be...

For the past six years, the floral design team of Lewis Miller has installed startlingly beautiful “flower flashes” on street corners,...

“To all the youth in New Orleans, Bring me a gun and I’ll give you a trumpet, no questions asked. I’m doing this until I run out of...

If you don’t know about Tim Tiller, you’ve missed out on one of the few honest-to-goodness treats to come out of an otherwise dark...

The “Teeter-Totter Wall,” which bridged across the border wall at El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, for a brief 40 minutes, has won...