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Rules For Dating My Daughter is a slice of life. It gives glimpses into the domestic and professional life of cartoonist and ...

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. I’m an Art Director and Stylist with a special penchant for ...

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil. Usually the strength of a ...

In the world of scenario planning, the fact that something is unthinkable should not prevent us from considering it. The breakup of the Soviet Union was unthinkable almost until the day it happened.

The need: a very tiny woodstove suitable for a small space in a home. I received many suggestions after posting an inquiry here last month. Here is the consensus from Cool Tools readers. The original ...

Noisy Night is a delightful read aloud for the preschool set. The book takes readers up, up, up through the floors of an ...

Out of nothing, nature makes something. First there is hard rock planet; then there is life, lots of it. First barren hills; then brooks with fish and cattails and red-winged blackbirds. First an ...

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My grandmother was a vaudeville and sideshow performer in the early 1900s. She performed as the Amazing Ruth with a pretty sizable python named Elmer. Elmer was dropped from the act in 1922 when he ...