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Inside St. Nick’s Christmas Decor Shop two toddlers sit on Santa’s lap, one crying as the other smiles. Nearby, a cat climbs a fully decorated Christmas Tree under the watchful eye of a dog. Underneath a table filled with Christmas houses are baskets of candies and gingerbread men. Outside the …
Today’s post is adapted from our Sunday newsletter, sent to subscribers each week. To receive your own free copy, just sign up here. What reminds you of the holidays? For me, it’s always the smell of gingerbread that takes me back to my mom’s kitchen, where she would roll out …
Do you know how to use an egg and tissue paper to make a festive pinecone holiday ornament? Me neither. But, to cap off our week of holiday crafts, I know where you can learn. Creativebug – FREE (for some); Annual Subscription $99 Started and run by women, Creativebug has …
One of the few good things to be said about 2020 is that it gave us plenty of time to read. Of the dozens of books we borrowed, bought, Kindled, and Audibled, each of us had one stand-out favorite. Presenting our top book picks for 2020, perfect for gifting to yourself …
The folks at Rockefeller Plaza struck the perfect note when they selected this tree for the 2020 holiday season. America’s most famous Christmas tree, a 75-foot tall Norway Spruce from Oneonta, New York, was chopped down on Monday, Nov. 9 and trucked to Rockefeller Plaza, where it was set up …
Today marks the final day of our 100 Woman Project, a special series we began on July 27 to count down 100 days before the 2020 election. We began with a profile of Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; 100 days later, …
In her TED talk, Craftivist Collective founder Sara Corbett describes using handkerchiefs to, as their tagline says, “change the world one stitch at a time.” A group advocating a living wage had tried everything to connect with the board of the British department store chain Marks & Spencer, without success. …
“I had this grand idea that Elvira’s kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween.” Self-proclaimed Queen of Halloween, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, with her signature black bouffant hair and plunging neckline, is the campy queen of horror who started life as Cassandra Peterson, a midwestern girl from Kansas. At …
Turns out those folks in Salem Village, MA could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and a bunch of lives if they had just turned to science for the answers. In 1692, young village girls began experiencing violent fits that included contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. The general …
Like millions of other Americans, astronaut Kate Rubins voted early in the 2020 election. Unlike her fellow citizens, however, Kate’s feet weren’t exactly on American soil. Kate is a flight engineer on Expedition 64, part of a three-person crew which launched from southern Kazakhstan on Oct. 14 (her 42nd birthday) …