For twenty-five years the Poetry Society of America has been an active presence and voice in New York City. They have sponsored “Poetry in Motion” posting poems and having poets read their poems on NYC subways. They have also worked in concert with the New York Botanical Garden creating placards …
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Elite Blankets Review: NFL, Collegiate, and CR7 Snuggles for Sports Fans
These highly recommended, quality blankets are actually a combination of a throw and blanket put together.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show Bar Car Nights
The Holiday Train Show Bar Car Nights and the entire exhibition are sure to ignite your seasonal spirit and bring joy and vitality to help you usher in the New Year.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show, a 25-Year Celebration of Awesome
This year the Applied Imagination team added the exhibition's first roller coaster, the Coney Island Cyclone. With the Cyclone are the Coney Island Wonder Wheel (complete with LED sign) and the Elephantine Colossus, a gigantic elephant-shaped hotel from the 1890s that burnt down in a fire.
Read More »Talking More Than Turkey – Preparing for Election Rancor to Rock Thanksgiving
If you are feeling like I am right now, you are dreading the inevitable holiday dinner sit down that could possibly turn into something like a wrestling cage match.
Read More »Technology Gift Guide 2016
Here are some of the latest advances in technology products to enhance the lives of you and your loved ones.
Read More »The Absurdity of Christmas Decorations in October
Why is the mall decorated for Christmas in October?
Read More »Halloween Symbols – The Black Cat
Along with the witch in flight and grinning and jack-o-lantern, the black cat in full arched-back fright mode is among THE iconic symbols of Halloween. Even to this day, who doesn’t feel a little charge when a black cat streaks across one’s path, especially on Halloween? Cats have been variously worshiped or reviled throughout human history, but they have almost always been seen as magical and otherworldly.
Read More »Why Has ‘Hocus Pocus’ Become THE Halloween Family Favorite?
Hocus Pocus has unexpectedly but perhaps inevitably become the consensus family favorite of the season nationwide. When it was released, bizarrely, in JULY of 1993, it was not a smash, was reviewed lukewarmly, and went on to generate a moderate $39.5 million ($65 million in 2015 dollars) at the box office.
Read More »What Mask Are You Wearing?
This is the way to deal with masks that has worked for me: seek to identify myself as an individual expression of God’s goodness, which strips away masks or false identities.
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