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Squirrel Removal Checklist for Families Traveling: Ensure a Stress-Free Holiday Season

Categories: Best OfTravelingBody: Traveling during the holiday season can be a joyful yet busy time for families, which makes it easy to overlook the importance of securing the home against potential unwelcome guests. As squirrels often look for warm places to nest during the colder months, it's crucial for families to have a thorough squirrel removal checklist before they head out. Being proactive about sealing entry points, trimming tree branches, and securing outdoor food sources...

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Beyond the History Books: Williamsburg's Most Chilling Legends

Categories: Best OfTravelingWilliamsburg’s cobblestone streets are seeped with revolution, resistance, and restlessness. While the ancient buildings tell a story of the budding birth of a nation, they also tell a story of ghosts, spirits, and specters. Haunted Colonial Williamsburg - Copyright US Ghost Adventures Colonial Williamsburg is awash with haunted legends and chilling tales. Today, we’ll be exploring the spookiest legends of Williamsburg, so hold on tight and take a brief walk...

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Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Next Chapter

Categories: Best OfStoriesWe’ve officially turned another calendar page. Whether you’re shocked, surprised, ready, still full of cheese, excited, nervous, or already on your way, amidst the fireworks and fanfare, January has arrived. How will you greet 2025? There are those of us jumping in with both feet, ready with our bucket lists, and resolutions to level up life. There are those in the throes of taking stock of what was and manifesting the heck out of dreams and goals for the next...

Life Without Citizenship: A Global Human Rights Issue

Categories: Global CitizenshipSocial and Political ActionBody: A stateless person, as defined by the 1954 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, is a person who is not considered a national of any state. This means that they do not hold formal citizenship of any state. Citizenship is a legal status that acts as a tie between the individual and the state, representing a form of membership within a state by granting the individual with certain rights ...

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The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples

Categories: Best OfTravelingBody: If you were lucky enough to travel to Naples in the 18th century and hoped to catch a glimpse of the antiquities being excavated at Herculaneum and Pompeii, you would likely have needed an invitation to one of the royal palaces of Charles VII of Naples. In 1734, eighteen year old Charles of Bourbon along with his Spanish troops journeyed to Naples at the request of King Philip V of Spain, to reclaim control of Naples from Austria. King Philip ap...

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Why Cultural Immersion Should Be Part of Every Learning Experience

Categories: Intercultural EducationStoriesBody: You might think that learning is confined to textbooks and lectures, but cultural immersion offers a richer, more nuanced experience. By stepping into different communities and cultures, you confront your own biases and expand your worldview in ways that traditional education simply can't match. This engagement not only enhances empathy but also cultivates essential communication skills necessary for today's interconnected society. So,...

Read This: Why Shooting Stars Above is One of the Most Important Books You’ll Ever Read

Categories: Books & FilmBooksBody: One of our favorite writers, Patricia Leavy, is back with a novel that is one of the most important books you’ll ever read. Shooting Stars Above is one of those books that, once you start, you cannot put down (yes, 4am bedtime, but happy!). It’s a story of courage, chosen family, and how love–in all aspects–can help us heal and grow. It has stayed with me, and I cannot stop thinking about the themes, characters, and how we all need more of th...

Portrait of a Presidency: Patterns in My Life as President of The College of New Jersey

Categories: Best OfStoriesBody: Publisher’s note: This is an excerpt from Chapter Five (Props for the House) of Portrait of a Presidency: Patterns in My Life as President of The College of New Jersey (Koehler Books: 2025), R. Barbara Gitenstein, President Emerita, The College of New Jersey, Senior Fellow and Senior Consultant, Association of Governing Boards Another example of successful behind-the-scenes communication in a political matter occurred in Chris Christie’s first year ...

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Cultural Holidays: From St. Nicholas to La Befana and everything in between!

Categories: Best OfStories The holidays are already a special time of year; when you add in all the cultural components and traditions that we hold onto through our families that have been passed down through generations, it adds something rather special to the holidays…because it’s filled with deep meaning. I grew up in a Greek and Italian-American family, and for us, the holidays always began from decorating our homes and Christmas trees the day after Thanksgiving. December 6 has alw...

Haunted House Stories

The Curse of the Dead Man's Diamond

Categories: Books & FilmChildren's booksBody: When twelve-year-old Charlotte is uprooted from New York City and forced to move to sweaty, sticky, roach-infested Florida, she’ll do anything to get back home – even conspiring with ghosts. Everyone in the kooky seaside town of Casaluna is obsessed with the supernatural, and Charlie finds herself living in the town’s most infamous haunted house, inhabited by a trio of rambunctious ghosts who were cursed for stealing a dead man...

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Music for Journeys Through December and Beyond

Categories: Best OfStoriesIt is December at this writing, a season of darkness and light, of looking forward and looking back. There are many journeys each of us makes in the course of a day, not to mention across a week, a month, and a year from January to December. These may be physical journeys to a new land to explore, down the street to help a friend, across a room to greet a stranger. They could be journeys of thought, imagination, storytelling, learning, and reflecting on changes ...

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Through the Eyes of an Educator: Cultivating Your Inner Magic

Categories: Best OfStories “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” - Robin Williams We’ve arrived in December, the time of the year when hot chocolate drinks warm hands, icicle lights drip from rooftops, and Spotify wraps fill our feeds. Whether you think of it as festive season, one of overwhelm, or one that calls for hiding in a pillow fort ‘til the calendar page flips, it shows up with bells on and only leaves when it’s done. It’s up to us to enjoy it or...

Read This: The Orphan Scandal

Categories: Books & FilmBooksBody: In 1933, 15-year-old Turkiyya Hasan was beaten at the Swedish Salam Mission in Port Said, Egypt. Hasan claimed she was beaten because of her refusal to accept Christianity. The missionaries claimed that she was willfully misbehaving and provoking disturbances at the missionary. Turkiyya’s story is significant for many reasons. Her story brought to light the increasing number of orphans who had been “saved” by missionaries. She helped bring to ...

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Read This: Prompting Originality: The A.I. Handbook for Humans

Categories: Books & FilmBooksBody: As an educator and/or parent, you're probably wondering HOW to teach and work with AI. It isn't easy. The field is constantly changing, and student, parents, and educators don't know where to even start to learn about, utilize, and think about AI. We all know that students will consider using AI to do their school work this year. And, if they do hit the ‘easy’ button, they’ll most likely be accepting mediocre content. Authentic, human-generated...

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Artist Spotlight: Robin Antar

Categories: ArtisansArtisan of the monthBody: Award-winning New York artist Robin Antar’s collection of sculptures, called REALISM IN STONE, look so authentic, they have the viewer asking, “Is this a sculpture or the real thing?” We were lucky enough to chat with her, and explore her extraordinary art and life. Robin Antar began her journey in stone sculpting as a teenager in 1974, creating abstract sculptures that were deeply rooted in her emotions. She pursued her passion...