As Americans gather for our annual Thanksgiving feast, many are sharpening their rhetorical knives while others are preparing to bury their heads in the mashed potatoes. Still others - like not-regular-enough contributor David Feela – find reasons, however quirky, to be grateful. As follows...
The origin story of Father's Day arguably begins in May of 1909, when a woman named Sonora Louise Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, heard a Mother’s Day sermon in her hometown church and thought a similar day should be set aside to honor fathers. Her...
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 then...
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 we’ve planned,...
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...
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...
If returning to your hometown, having dinner with your extended family, and eating yourself into a food coma aren’t your bag, Thanksgiving becomes more than a little uncomfortable. Adding to that angst is your drunk uncle who wants to talk politics and "fake" news or...
