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  • Family Ties

    Most of the time, we pass through towns without ever truly seeing them. A name flashes by on a roadway sign, a row of storefronts slips past the car window—and just like that, we’re gone. We don’t stop. We don’t wonder what lives were lived there, or what still lingers behind. But something felt different…

  • Rootin’-Tootin’ Rabble-Rousin

    Some years, it feels like we completely skip spring. One minute it’s flurries and frostbite, and the next—bam!—we’re baking in full-on summer heat. In fact, a 2025 analysis by Climate Central found that 98% of the U.S. has seen more warmer-than-normal spring days since 1970. For many places, that’s seven extra warm days each spring.…

  • School’s Out For Summer

    When you ask someone to name the oldest college in America, Harvard is almost always the first answer—and for good reason. Founded in 1636, it holds the title of the nation’s first institution of higher learning. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was named after John Harvard, a Puritan minister who donated his library and half…

  • Belle of the Bar

    The idea of six degrees of separation—sometimes called the “six handshake rule”—subtly shapes how I explore history each week. First imagined in a 1929 short story by Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy, it suggests that any two people on Earth are connected by no more than six social links. That concept has intrigued me for years.…

  • Garden of Eden

    After months of gray skies and stillness, there’s nothing more healing than stepping outside and feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin again. I live for those quiet hours with my hands in the dirt—no noise, no screens, just the rhythm of the earth and my own breath. There’s something about that stillness…