Our ancestors gave thanks through prayer. We scroll.
Thanksgiving once held a significance that went beyond the push for sales and football. Essentially, it served as a reminder of the inextricable links between faith, family, and country, highlighting that those who enjoy freedom must acknowledge where their blessings come from. Before Congress formalized the holiday for the end of November, the early colonies […]
Reader stumbles on Dracula’s ancestors in a Dublin library | Bram Stoker
Beneath a turquoise-and-white domed ceiling and surrounded by oak shelving in the Dublin library once frequented by James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, Brian Cleary sits on the floor of Who's Alive? I happened to come across a book by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, who I believed I had never read. Cleary, who suffered […]
The immigrants you fear are just like your ancestors. Don’t fall for political scare tactics.
Growing up as an Indian-American in New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s, I faced prejudice and discrimination, but the person who most understood what I was going through was my 80-year-old Italian-American piano teacher, Ms. Baldino. As I talked with her, I realized that what I was going through was strikingly similar to what […]