The sheer amount of food is nauseating—a typical plate consists of beef, pork, chicken, sausage, potato salad, rice, corn salad, tomato salad, and a glass of wine. After an extensive grilling process, the traditional Chilean ...

My neighbor owns two tanker trucks and supplies water to houses that don't get a regular supply. He's constantly working on the tankers with his helpers, opening up the ...

Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search of friendships to destroy.It is religion.And ...

Recently I took a trip I approached with both anticipation and dread .The marrying kind "We're getting married," my friend Kay had said when I picked up the phone. ...

I'm an optimist. I can find a positive spin in any situation. I'll admit, though, my gift of optimism failed me last year on Tuesday, September 10, a day ...

Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the ...

They say you can't go home again. In my case, its usually because someone has changed the locks on the door—so that I, literally, can't go ...

The power actually browned out—gradually—in our section of midtown Manhattan on August 14 at 4:10 p.m. But before ten full minutes had elapsed, everything was completely gone.Like for most ...

Ash Wednesday, 1932 An art student stands on the avenue in New York City in 1932, looking up at the Empire State Building, recently completed.Most people from around the ...

By all accounts, Gay Pride Week in Toronto was different this year. Normally, the festivities draw thousands of tourists to the capital of Ontario and the annual parade?that took place on Sunday June 29?can attract ...