Imagine you’re a gardener and you want to grow beautiful flowers. You hope to attract visitors with their beauty, elegance and maybe even their fragrance. You know that you won’t use pesticides, or synthetic or sewage-based fertilizers. To achieve this, you amend the soil and make sure that sunlight and water are adequate. […]
Take a moment and imagine what would happen if you didn’t take out the trash. A full trash bag has been sitting in your home for a few days. Banana peels are starting to rot. Meat thrown away from Thursday’s dinner is starting to stink. The few drops left in the milk carton are starting to curdle. The combination of smells swirl together to create that oh-so-familiar, “it’s-time-to-take-out-the-trash” stench. […]
Edible arrangements can be a tasty substitute for flowers. But is it weird to order one for yourself? For those who aren’t familiar with edible arrangements, or who have never had the pleasure of devouring one, it’s an assortment of fruit, often covered in chocolate, and served in a vase like flowers. In 1999, an American entrepreneur named Tariq Farid developed a new business concept for fruit bouquets with his brother, Kamran Farid. […]
It’s been a month since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead and 14 wounded. It’s time to stop dancing around the idea of stricter gun control and actually do something. A recent Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans want stricter laws governing the sale of firearms, a record high since the survey began in 1993. […]
Feb. 16 is National Almond Day! The tasty nut originated in central and southwest Asia, becoming a staple food that helped sustain long journeys of nomadic tribes, according to the National Almond Day page of PartyExcuses.com. […]
At the Oct. 19 St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees meeting, a professor was tackled and removed from the public hearing. He was being sanctioned for having questioned the board’s banning of applause for […]
The residents of Puerto Rico are not “illegal aliens.” They’re U.S. citizens. It’s time we start treating them that way. In a Morning Consult poll, only 54 percent of Americans knew that Puerto Ricans were U.S. citizens. […]
How about a little Art Appreciation 101? We’ve all probably walked by the wooden-looking statue outside A Tower and the library, possibly not taking much notice of this withered yet human-appearing form missing arms and legs like many famous old sculptures. […]
What is a tiger mom? It’s a parent who has some of these characteristics: pushing her child to excel, perhaps sending him or her to a Montessori school; enrolling the child in a gifted program, testing his or her IQ at an early age; trying out different private schools; even starting college preparatory testing by the fourth grade. […]
Dear “Doctor” Donald Trump: You’re trying to eliminate Obamacare and replace it with legislation that would cut coverage to millions. The existing law is the best thing to come along thus far, providing relatively affordable coverage to working people, a goal stated by another Republican president, Richard Nixon, in 1972. […]
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