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Calling all Lord of the Rings fans, you can now re-write the epic trilogy while having dinner at your very own dining table. As many times as you like. Every…
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Calling all Lord of the Rings fans, you can now re-write the epic trilogy while having dinner at your very own dining table. As many times as you like. Every…
No cookie can compare to the original Oreo. It’s kind of a perfect cookie. While we’re fans of some Oreo flavors, like Lemon and Peanut Butter, bad ones — ahem,…
Depression has a way of tricking even the happiest of people into thinking that life isn’t worth experiencing. Their energy is evaporated, what once was pleasurable is now less-than appealing…
Sleep takes up one-third of our lives, but it puzzles us so much. Many of us are tired all the time — 40 percent of Americans sleep less than the…
By Barbara Stepko Get an injection, down those pills, and follow your M.D.’s advice to the letter: These are all pretty familiar forms of medicine. But if you want to…
ISTANBUL (RNS) Each Sunday, visitors line up outside of the old Sufi lodge, now a museum, in Turkey’s tourist-filled Galata district, informational pamphlets, cameras and $20 tickets in hand. The…
ROME (RNS) Roman Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Europe concluded a visit to Gaza with a call for the end of Israel’s long-running blockade, and greater action to alleviate…
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NAPA, Calif. (RNS) It was a good thing for Trinitas Cellars that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio took the name Pope Francis, and not, say Pope Malbecius. When the Argentine cardinal…
The following is an excerpt from the 40th anniversary edition of Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting, for which Wicked author Gregory Maguire wrote the introduction. Below, Maguire cites the Young Adult…
Originally published by BookBub – The 87th annual Academy Awards ceremony airs on February 22, 2015. Will you tune in?
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life….
We had always hoped the real life super-heroines of our time would wear masks. And then there were the Guerrilla Girls, a feminist art collective that started kicking the art…
Wallpaper, once the favorite daughter of interior design, is now more like the ugly stepchild. The late 20th century took a toll on the decorating medium that has roots in…
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Although it’s earned a good reputation in retrospect, childhood can be a perpetually terrifying experience. You spend years as nothing more than an innocent, defenseless flesh ball, navigating the world…
DITTMER, Mo. (RNS) A quiet street and a quaint three-bedroom home drew Mike Stenzhorn and his family to Dittmer 15 years ago. He and his two children loved the neighborhood…
(RNS) Chris Kyle, often described as the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, wrote in his autobiography that he prioritized his life in the following order: God, country, family….
www.nydailynews.com: Beige is the new black for imprisoned Sister Megan Rice, an 84-year old Catholic nun and anti-nuclear activist.
If you’re one of those people who “just can’t meditate,” you may want to give it another shot. – Enough reading; start meditating! Don’t know where to start? Check out…
George W. Bush called it Sam Houston’s bible. Rick Perry swore on its centuries-old sheepskin four times. And on Tuesday, Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott is set to preserve one of…
On the eve of becoming notorious with the release of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Dakota Johnson, its under-the-radar star, relishes her last moments of anonymity. Read the whole story at…
After showing us how Chicken McNuggets and McRib patties are made, McDonald’s is back with yet another video in what we like to refer to as the company’s truth-telling campaign….
This article comes to us courtesy of U.S. News & World Report, where it was originally published. President Barack Obama’s proposal for free community college tuition is either a game…
Want to know what your university thought about you? It’s kind of terrifying, like if there was a Lulu for ladies… but at the same time, aren’t you dying to…
Jane Wilson, a painter whose best-known works were landscapes that occupied a niche nestled between representation and abstraction, died on Jan. 13 in Manhattan. She was 90. The cause was…
As beauty fanatics here at HuffPost Style, it’s easy for us to name our favorite lipsticks in rapid succession. While we often name the latest colors from MAC and drugstore…
As more influential men expound on the mindful benefits of meditation, from Congressman Tim Ryan to media entrepreneur Russell Simmons, the practice may seem more accessible — or even masculine…
This move may seem simple, but it’s a terrific way to tone your butt. All you need is a set of dumbbells. Read the whole story at Refinery29
It is always a shock reaching Bamiyan, coming face to face with the two huge cavities in the cliff face. The upright tombs stare out over the valley, a splash…