A new survey found that 44 percent of adults in the United States use their smartphones to browse the internet within 10 minutes of waking up, either always or often. This doesn't…
Our first Speak Up storytelling show of 2026 is coming up, and tickets are now available. Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 7:00 PM EST Connecticut Historical Society The theme of…
In 2024, an art collective embarked on a new piece called Our Cow Angus. Here's what they did: Bought a young cow. Named it Angus. Presold Angus as 1,200 hamburgers…
I was teaching a storytelling workshop last month when a woman approached me and asked if I remembered her. I did not and immediately felt bad. She told me not…
More than ten years ago, a 12-year-old boy in France faked his own kidnapping to avoid a dentist appointment, appearing in a town 100 miles from his own after claiming to have…
The state of Utah has made it easy for anyone to ban a book in public schools across the state. A law passed in 2024 allowed the statewide ban of…
I spent New Year's Eve teaching my niece how to play Slapsies, the classic children's hand game where one person tries to slap the other's hands before they can pull…
As you may have heard, the Kennedy Center has been teetering since Donald Trump slapped his name on the building and took over. Can you imagine how needy you must…
As I rang in 2026, I read a lot of New Year's resolution lists — looking for inspiration for my own — and one kind of item appeared again and…
Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, will deliver its last ever letter on Tuesday, as the digital age brings its 400-year run to an end. This makes Denmark the first country…
