So you planted a garden, lucked out when your property included fruit trees, stumbled upon a produce sale you just couldn’t pass up, or joined a Community Supported Agriculture group. Good for you! Now what? What will you do with all that bounty? Your choices are 1) quickly consume your harvest before it spoils, 2)…
‘Cursed’ Baby Left in Trash Soon to Be Adopted by His Rescuer: ‘They Thought He Had Evil Spirits’
A college student who found an abandoned baby in a dumpster in Haiti took the infant into his care without hesitation, becoming his legal guardian as the authorities tried to make sense of the tragedy. Five years on, he has filed for adoption with the support of thousands of donors. Jimmy Amisial, 27, from Haiti,…
Staying True to Western Art Traditions: Guido Reni’s ‘Immaculate Conception’
Divine beauty, purity, and light emanate from 17th-century Italian painter Guido Reni’s work “The Immaculate Conception,” wherein the Virgin’s every gesture reveals her pious heart. She tilts her head and gazes adoringly up to God, while gently clasping her hands together in prayer. You can almost hear the chorus of angels singing among the clouds…
PHOTOS: Toy-Like Blacknose Sheep’s Amazing Bond with Owners—’The Best Pets in the World’
The owner of an adorable flock of black-nosed sheep says the fluffy creatures are truly the best pets in the world. The photogenic flock has even gained a massive following on social media. April Higgins, 30, runs the BoPeep flock of rare Valais blacknose sheep in County Limerick, Ireland, with her fiancé, Alymer Power. She first became…
Making Movies Outside of Hollywood: Actor–Filmmaker John Schneider Blazes His Own Trail
Hollywood loves a “fish out of water.” Put a poor family from the Deep South into a posh, Los Angeles suburb and you have “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Put a New York City lawyer and his Park Avenue-loving wife on a rural farm and you have “Green Acres.” Put a hardboiled, Philadelphia detective into an Amish…
The Pickle Project: A Quest for the Perfect Refrigerator Pickles
It began with my friend, Amy Alkon, gushing about Dietz and Watson brand kosher dill pickles, which she calls “the crowning glory of picklehood.” Alkon is an award-winning, science-based advice columnist and author. On Twitter, she called her D&W’s the “best thing to stress eat … when the writing is going a little hopelessly.” Her…
Film Review: ‘My Son Hunter’: Director Robert Davi’s Brilliant Biden Satire
NR | 1h 35min | Drama, Biography, Comedy, Satire | 7 September 2022 (USA) Less than a minute after the start of the hotly anticipated “My Son Hunter,” director Robert Davi and screenwriter Brian Godawa include an 11-word text scroll which (with tongue firmly in cheek) that both downsizes and heightens the expectations of what we’re about to see: “This is not…
Texas Woman Loves 1940s Clothing, Even Had War-Time Themed Wedding: ‘We Love It’
A Texas woman loves to dress in vintage clothing, flaunting her “historic wardrobe” worth over $10,000. After years of dressing modern, Gwendolyn Erin Patterson, 25, from Dallas, now refuses to leave her house without sporting glamorous attire from the World War II era. With a wardrobe straight out of a 1940s fashion magazine, Gwendolyn now owns over 50…
Opposites Attract: Mark Twain and Joan of Arc
More than a century after his death, Mark Twain (1835-1910), the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemons, remains a figure of controversy. Some schools, for example, have dropped his American classic “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from required reading lists for its racial language. Twain’s religious skepticism, directed in particular toward Christianity, has also made his…
Man Born Without a Hand Becomes Pilot, Writes Children’s Book, Is ‘Forever Grateful’ to Parents
He is confident, relaxed, and all smiles. Pilot Eric Gaffney, who was born with a limb difference, not only cuts a handsome figure but is truly made for the job. The 34-year-old first officer at United Airlines, who flies the Boeing 737, is missing a hand—but he is not short on determination and resilience. He…
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