Holidays

Though it’s still very summery in much of the country, with the opening of a number of haunted attractions, costumes and candy overflowing shelves in stores, and spooky programming easing onto screens big and small, the Halloween season is upon us. Amidst the noisy, colorful pop cultural extravaganza that is contemporary Halloween in America, an element central to the extended history of Halloween — all the way back to the pre-Christian Celtic celebration of Samhain — has virtually been lost: the art of divination.

Despite all these other distractions, Memorial Day is still a necessary and compelling holiday to be celebrated with vigor.

As Mr. Obama recognized the Japanese losses at Hiroshima and the event that caused them, there is a resonance for Americans who are remembering their own losses this Memorial Day weekend.

Ten years and even ten more after that will not stop me from missing Mom; that is forevermore just like her love.

It is ironic but somehow fitting that St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, synonymous with all things Irish, when in fact he wasn’t even Irish. Patrick was born around A.D. 390 in Roman Britain to a wealthy family and led a life of casual privilege until he was kidnapped by raiders at the age of 16 and spirited away to Ireland, where he spent more than six windswept, chilly years as a slave tending sheep in the vicinity of Killala.

Spring break in Dublin, Mexico City, or Iceland? Absolutely! Here's why.

This Valentine’s Day, there’s something for everyone, but it’s best to get an early start.

To keep the world from thinking that their solution to a shipping truck shortage is a grand burglary network, FedEx and UPS have been trying to get the word out that rental moving trucks will be used to make up for shipping shortages.

The truth is that the "I Have a Dream" speech is a living thing, one that is as pertinent in 2016 as it was in 1963.

Feeling sorrow about the long lost practice of sending and receiving Christmas cards that, no matter what the distance, seemed to bring people closer together.