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How to Go Green for the Holidays
Most everyone who knows me knows I love the holidays. Actually, by mid-September each year, I’m in full happy mode because it’s fall (THE best season, of course) and the holidays are just around the...
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Some Holiday Travel Faves …
Are you hungry for gingerbread cookies? Well then thank goodness UNESCO named Northern Croatia’s “gingerbread craft” an “intangible cultural world heritage”! Two gingerbread craft fun facts: Croatian...
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How to Ensure Unblinking Eyes in Christmas Photos
While researching for a recent blog post detailing the nomination process for the Ig Nobel Prizes, the research of two particular winners caught my eye. The scientists who received the 2006 prize in...
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How to Get Along with Difficult Relatives During the Holidays
Luckily, I get along very well with the majority of my relatives. And in the rare situations wherein that’s not quite the case, I’m easygoing enough to be pretty good at bluffing it so they don’t know...
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How to Make a Centerpiece for Easter Dinner
I’ll admit, I don’t really do anything to celebrate Easter except eat awesome food with the fam, but that doesn’t mean I pass at the opportunity to put together a fun centerpiece with flowers to...
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 21, Holiday Foods: Get Your Pumpkin On
Mmmmmmmmmm. Pumpkin. Holly and I are fans of food, and every season we’ve got something else to look forward to on the menu. When we recorded this episode, it was high pumpkin season, though the year...
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How to Cure a Homemade Cookie Craving Without Turning on the Oven
For many of us, the holidays can make us nostalgic. It’s the perfect time of year to reminisce about family, friends, past holiday celebrations and favorite joyful traditions. Over the years as we grow...
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Who invented the Christmas card?
The world's first Christmas card. (Wikimedia Commons) Americans bought around 2 billion Christmas cards in 2010, according to the Greeting Card Association. Despite women making 85 percent of greeting...
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 50: St. Patrick’s Day
We think of St. Patrick’s Day as an Irish holiday, but the way we celebrate it in America is uniquely (and sometimes problematically) American. Green rivers, green beer, green food … it’s easy to go...
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Who was the first American servicewoman killed in action?
World War I nurses were the first female military personnel to die in the line of duty. (flickr/Library of Congress) To commemorate Memorial Day, the annual American holiday honoring the military men...
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A Brief History of Slutoween
Kim Kardashian celebrating Slutoween as sexy Red Riding Hood. (© Dan Herrick/ZUMA Press/Corbis) If I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen a social media comment along the lines of “why are Halloween...
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