Nobody Wants the Family Heirlooms Anymore

Lloyd Alter wrote an insightful article about passing on family heirlooms:

I don’t like clutter. Yet cluttering up my dining room is an old cabinet ...

The Living Bridge

Meghalaya in northwest India is arguably the wettest place on earth. The mile-high mountain range boasts the world record for rain with an annual accumulation ...

Self-Proclaimed ‘Old Coots’ Offer Life Advice at Farmers Market

The group of retired friends who meet every Saturday morning at a Salt Lake City deli were growing tired of the same conversation each week. Sure, they ...

NY Rapper and Florida Grandma Connect Through the Power of Words

It started with the word "phat."

Aspiring rapper and producer Spencer Sleyon, an African-American 22 year old from Harlem, was taken aback when ...

Old Trees don't Get Taller, They Bulk Up like a Bodybuilder

Old trees may not grow taller every year, but they do keep bulking up—like a human bodybuilder. That's the summary of recent research into the ...

God Uses the Young but Saves His Best Work for the Mature

Os Guinness argues that God can use and has used people in their youth, but God also has accomplished some of his best work through people more advanced ...

U.S. Relay Teams Failed to Pass the Baton

It's the sound no relay runner wants to hear: Ping. Ping. Ping. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the United States men's and women's 4x100-meter ...

Parents' Gift to Their Son: Two Message Stones

Os Guinness writes in “Impossible People”:

I grew up in a China that had been ravaged by two centuries of European and American adventuring, ...

Inuit Hunters Losing Ability to Read Surroundings

The small island of Igloolik, in northern Canada is a bewildering place in the winter. The average temperature hovers at about 20 degrees below zero, ...

Billy Graham on the Opportunities of Old Age

In his book Nearing Home, Billy Graham offers the following advice about the opportunities in growing older:

When Coca-Cola changed its one-hundred-year-old ...