Expressions with deeper meanings or fascinating origin stories tend to be used commonly in the English language —everything from “barking up the wrong tree” to “don’t cry over spilled milk.” Popular sayings are often a metaphoric spin on real meanings — but where did they come from? And who came up with some of the expressions and sayings we often …
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For a number of months now, I’ve enjoyed checking in with some of your favorite Fox personalities to learn more about who they are behind the scenes. But as you may recall, I did promise to throw in some surprise appearances here and there! This week I wanted to share my conversation with David L. Bahnsen, author of the new …
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“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic piece of literature today that has been read by millions. The book set on Long Island during the Jazz Age is a work read by English classes across the country. The story told by narrator Nick Carraway about his wealthy, mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby, and his love for Daisy Buchanan …
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Nothing against Peter Rabbit or his creator, British author Beatrix Potter, but he and his doppleganger the Easter bunny have nothing to do with the true meaning of Easter. Neither do Easter baskets, jelly beans, chocolate, bonnets, spring flowers or any other secular imagery that has taken center stage during the Lent and Easter seasons. All of that appears to …
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Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the first 11 years of his life in San Francisco until his father, journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., died of tuberculosis, according to Biography.com. After his death, Frost, his mother and his sister moved in with his grandparents in …
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Bestselling author Anthony DeStefano of New Jersey was tired of commercialism and secular culture overrunning the true meaning of Easter — so he wrote a book to “Christianize” the story of the Easter Bunny. “The Story of the First Easter Bunny” tells of a “small bunny with very large ears” who lives with his ailing mother near Jerusalem during the …
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Before Eric Byrnes was drafted to Major League Baseball in 1994, he was just a kid from California who loved to play sports. Byrnes, discernibly a star baseball player, also learned karate and played football, tennis and basketball. Thinking back on the baseball memories he was most fond of as a child, he remembers relationships with friends, Jack in the …
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A library book due nearly 37 years ago was recently returned to a library in northern Colorado, the High Plains Library District announced in a Facebook post on Monday, March 18. “This book, ‘Psychedelics’ by Bernard Aaronson, was due back May 30th, 1987,” the High Plains Library District said in the post. “It was returned to Riverside Library and Cultural …
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