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Fact 1: The city of Verona, where Shakespeare set his love story about Romeo and Juliet, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day. Fact 2: Cynics insist Valentine's Day is all about men atoning for their sins of omission by buying sweethearts toasters...

On Valentine's Day, all you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt," said humorist Charles Schultz. Or a poem by regular contributor, poet extraordinaire David Feela which, according to its author, is not “a gushy traditional love poem, but certainly...

I know. I know. Any excuse to wear sequins. Sooo - “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right," part-time local Oprah Winfrey. And cheers to regular contributor Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer, who lends her sparkle to the last big...

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come,” Joseph Campbell. And now it’s time for one of our...

No matter how darn organized you are, it is likely there is at least one person on your Christmas shopping list who has stopped you dead in your (very tired by now) tracks. As will this poem by regular contributor and razor-sharp wit David Feela...

Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my favorites: a gift of your time, like offering to babysit for your friends’ progeny; tickets to a sporting event or concert; a charitable donation in a friend or loved one’s name; or...

The term "solstice" means "sun stands still." On the year's two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky but change little in position during this time....