I don’t drink coffee, and yet I’ve been wanting to write about Viennese coffeehouse culture for quite a while now, and even wrote the first paragraph a couple of months ago. Because Viennese coffeehouses are so different from your typical American cafe, and because their many different ...
May we talk about spiritual matters? “In the beginning,” the Bible opens, “God created the heavens and the earth.” Several lines down, God says, let humankind “have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of ...
Dear Annie: I’ve had a dear friend for nearly a decade. He has been addicted to meth, heroin, alcohol — you name it. For years, I was the savior he ran to when everything fell apart. He’s married and has two young children. Before his youngest was born, he was a full-blown meth addict. ...
One complication to vintage and antique china sets is the fact that makers and decorators weren’t always the same. Many porcelain manufacturers in Europe and the United States made blank dishes that were sent to other factories for decorating. Some sold the blanks as they were for hobbyists ...
I’ve had occasion lately to do a deep, thorough scouring of my room — the type where you uncover all kinds of forgotten nooks and crannies which hold untold treasures covered by the dust of time and cat hair. One of those treasures was found within a manila envelope in a drawer, buried ...
The negative public reaction to Operation Metro Surge — the violent immigration dragnet in Minnesota – was “MAGA’s Gettysburg,” wrote New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on Jan. 28. Bouie, of course, was comparing ICE’s setbacks to the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, the ...