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COVID-19 has forced us to slow down, restrict our movements, and turn our attention inwards. That’s a major lifestyle change for many of us. The slow-living movement reminds us to be mindful of what’s around us. It’s about cultivating simple pleasures and using our resources wisely, skills that are suddenly…

What we thought was going to be an eternal mystery—what would Mark Frost and David Lynch have done with their creation if Twin Peaks had lasted longer than two seasons—was solved when Showtime brought the cult-classic drama and most of the original cast back for a third season in 2017.Yet nothing…

Today is the 99th day of 2020. There are 267days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1946: The League of Nations assembles in Geneva for the last time.OTHER EVENTS1500: French army, aided by Swiss mercenaries, conquers Milan in Italy.1906: The Algerias Act is signed, giving France and Spain chief control in…

When you pull a rubber band out as far as you can stretch it, it bounces quickly back into shape.  Which is what resilience is all about – bouncing back into your ‘best self’ and not being permanently bent out of shape. It’s why resilience so important, not just in…

Mary Cadden USA TODAYPublished 8:17 PM EDT Apr 10, 2020All our lives have been changed dramatically by the coronavirus pandemic. Most of us are being sequestered at home, many are losing jobs and some of us have had to cancel milestone events, such as weddings and graduations. But we are not the first…

March is going out, but not like a lamb: it’s March 31, 2020, and it’s both National Oysters on the Half Shell Day and National Clams on the Half Shell Day. Fat chance that any of us will get these things right now!  It’s also International Transgender Day of Visibility,…

Well, one more day until this wretched month is behind us: it’s Monday, March 30, 2020, and it’s both National Hot Chicken Day and National Turkey Neck Soup Day.  It’s also National Doctors Day, Pencil Day, (“on today’s date in 1858, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Hyman Lipman…

Politics and NationStock Analysis, IPO, Mutual Funds, Bonds & MoreIndia has enforced a 21-day nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the deadly virus, which has infected nearly 650 people in the country so far. Moreover, some states and Union territories have clamped curfew to restrict movement of people to…

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic began in China in late November and early December 2019.  Now many accuse the Chinese authorities of negligence and the fact that they did not take sufficient measures to prevent the spread of the virus, thereby contributing to the infection of the inhabitants of all countries on…

OSAKA – On the morning of March 20, 1995, members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas on Tokyo subway trains, killing 13 people and injuring over 5,800. The attack came as the nation was still reeling from the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe just over two months…