But I’ve also got a deep bench of nonpolitical topics on tap too. Among them arethe Hallmark Channel’s new sports-themed holiday romance movie,the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade,big changes at the Rose Bowlandsome peculiar new winged tenants at a Long Beach shopping center. That may so...
Next time you are struggling with the crossword, try putting the kettle on. Drinking a cup of tea can improve creativity, a study suggests. Researchers gave men and women either tea or water and then asked them to complete a word association game, which was used to measure a form of cre...
A crossword puzzle is much like the way language works. The first few entries are somewhat difficult, but where we are not sure, a few guesses seem to fit. These then fill in a couple of squares and help us to make more guesses. If those guesses seem to work, we will consider our...
It's a daily crossword with a Sudoku twist that stretches my brain cells in new ways. You'd like this puzzle, Mo...but don't blame me when you get hooked. Goodbye, crepe myrtle branches. Gardening lore says they should be trimmed by February 14 and I've met that goal. I like ...
Time spent in his chair with the newspaper became interactive as he would shout out crossword clues that had him stumped. He still wasn’t perfect and often drove me nuts, but I got to know the man who gave me life and I enjoyed his company. I am thankful for the “no-nonsense”,...
She is the winner of the 2007 Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for excellence in political reporting and analysis for her dispatches from China. Her book Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular Book Award for 2008. Her first novel, Chinese Whiskers, has recently...
December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day; Look on the Bright Side Day; National Short Story Day; Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere); Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere) December 22 – National Short Person Day December 23 –Robert Bly’s Birthday;Harriet Monroe’s Birthday; National Roots Day ...
I know people who have gotten so competitive about the NYT Games, that they will claim higher intelligence over a friend who has a lower score than them that day, or who took a few more minutes to solve the crossword. It’s a bit troubling, but I also find it totally fascinating as...
I do crossword puzzles and read at least two books a week to help stimulate the verbal part of my brain. I always have a jigsaw puzzle going on my dinette table to help with the visual-spatial part of my brain. However, my body is breaking down due to a very serious car accident ...
Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs focuses on the need to leave the issue of abortion to the political process. But there was no deference to the political process earlier this week when the conservatives on the court declared unconstitutional a New York law limiting concealed weapo...