Month: November 2015

The little, old watch shop in Amsterdam welcomed all: five children, unmarried aunts, the children of missionaries serving abroad, foster children, folks with special needs and, during World War II, Jews seeking a safe hiding places. The elderly watch maker, Casper, 84, and his mid-50s unmarried daughters, Corrie and Betsie, adjusted their lives around the…

The intellectual argument from Maine defies the actual results of mainland China. Ignoring the actual consequences China’s 35-year-old law prohibiting more than one child to families in densely populated areas, Sarah Conly, an associate philosophy professor at Bowdoin College in Maine, has found the perfect solution to combat global warming: limit couples to one child.…

“The time has come, the time is now,” I declared, waking my husband from his early morning sleep. The desk, the closet, the drawers of clothes under our bed would all be stripped and inspected as we searched for his lost cell phone and did our once every 10 years fall cleaning. The phone had…

They laughed from one side of the country to another and across the Atlantic about the secret stash of 12 bottles of Prell hidden away in the bathroom cupboard. The secret stash of the highly desired emerald green liquid stayed unknown to anyone until the linen closet was stripped of all its contents and out…