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For decades, Bo Derek has existed in the public imagination as a symbol of beauty frozen in time. Yet reducing…

At first glance, wrapping aluminum foil around a door handle sounds like the kind of idea people scroll past without…

As the end of the year approaches, many people feel a quiet pull to reset their surroundings. The holiday season…

When I think about my grandmother, Margaret Harper, the word that surfaces first is not loving, or kind, or generous.…

Classic humor has a strange kind of durability. It doesn’t rely on shock value, outrage, or trends that burn out…

Optical illusions have a unique ability to unsettle our confidence in what we see. Even when our eyesight is perfectly…

Two days before Christmas, I did something I never thought I would. I broke every “don’t talk to strangers” rule…

It was one of those evenings when tiredness feels heavier than the cold itself. The day had been long—work demands,…

The winter that almost erased Silver Creek arrived with little warning and no restraint. Snow fell relentlessly for days, burying…

An elderly farmer was driving his tractor down a rural road, hauling a wagon piled high with manure, when a…