Depending on where you are in life can determine how well you understand the dilemma facing people so much in love they want to marry. The traditional progression has not completely disappeared. Two people meet, get married, rent until they can afford their first home and continue to build a life together from there. Netflix’s …
Could there be as many ways to react to this crazy pandemic as there are people enduring it? Over the winter, a survey asking how people were negotiating both the physical world and the digital universe during Covid generated a dizzying array of responses. Writer Karissa Murrell Myers used a big fistful of them to …
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Sometimes what’s obvious to one person turns out to be an “Oh, yeah!” moment for the rest of us. Playwright Vivian J. O. Barnes happened to be watching television when the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was leaving the hospital 7 hours after delivering the youngest of her three children. Barnes saw more than just …
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How much do artist’s paint their feelings as well as what they see? It’s a question we rarely ask ourselves when we go to an exhibition celebrating someone’s artistic talent and accomplishments. Thinking about how that question might be answered could help us appreciate both the artist and art even more. Claude Monet was one …
Exact numbers vary, but there are well over a billion people around the world who celebrate the Lunar New Year. China’s so identified with the festival that it’s often referred to as the Chinese New Year. But Indonesia, the Philippines, Viet Nam, South Korea and Malaysia are among the legion of countries who include it …