Holiday

Where Love Lives: A Slow Sunday Inside Our Family Home. AI-Generated.
There’s a quiet magic in ordinary mornings—the kind that doesn’t shout, but lingers in the corners of your heart long after the day has passed. For our family, Sunday mornings are like that: a gentle rhythm of laughter, familiar routines, and soft celebrations of simply being together. If you asked someone passing by our home at 9 a.m., they might mistake us for a movie scene—the scent of fresh coffee, the hum of soft music, and the comforting clatter of plates and cups filling the kitchen. But there’s nothing cinematic about what we do. It’s ordinary. And it’s ours.
By jaenera day ago in Families
The Love That Stays Off-Camera
I didn’t notice the fire until it was almost too late. It was a Tuesday in late October. Dry wind, brittle leaves, the kind of air that crackles with danger. I was inside, scrolling through bad news on my phone, when the smell hit—acrid, sharp, wrong. I ran outside just as smoke curled over the ridge behind our street.
By KAMRAN AHMAD4 days ago in Families
The Last Gallop
In a small village nestled between golden wheat fields and sun-cracked hills, there lived a horse named Bahar. He wasn’t sleek or swift, nor did he have a pedigree worth boasting about. His coat was dull in places, his legs bore old scars, and one ear was half-torn from a long-forgotten storm. But to twelve-year-old Rehan, Bahar was more than a horse—he was memory, comfort, and home.
By meerjanan5 days ago in Families
The Last Day of 2025. Content Warning.
2025 was an objectively hard year for me. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't extremely thrilled to be done with whatever this last year has been! It is fitting that I want to use Wednesdays to write wacky things... and the end of 2025 is on a Wednesday - as it has been one wacky year!
By The Schizophrenic Mom6 days ago in Families
The Space Between Noticing
The city woke up loudly, but Jonah always noticed the silence first. It lived in the early hours, tucked between the hum of traffic and the clatter of metal gates opening for business. It lingered in the spaces most people rushed through without a second thought. Jonah didn’t rush. He never had.
By Yasir khan8 days ago in Families
Land of the Free
Somewhere between “freedom” and “Wi‑Fi,” America forgot how to rebel. We stopped throwing tea into harbors and started paying subscriptions to our own surveillance. The revolution didn’t end; it just got quiet, replaced by notifications and next‑day delivery. The land of the free grew polite — too polite — learning to mistake convenience for peace, and obedience for order.
By Living the Greatest CONSPIRACY Theory. By RG.9 days ago in Families
A Toast to the Timed and Tamed
It’s funny how everybody celebrates New Year’s on January 1st, like clockwork — literally. The fireworks go off, champagne pops, resolutions fly, and everyone cheers in submission, believing they’ve begun something new. But if you really think about it, nothing has shifted but the clock’s agreement. Nature doesn’t renew herself in January’s frost. The trees are bare, the ground is sleeping. We start the “new year” when life is still in hibernation — and call that progress.
By Living the Greatest CONSPIRACY Theory. By RG.9 days ago in Families
The Last Unopened Gift
Chapter 1: The Geometry of Silence The snow did not fall in New York City that year; it descended. It came down in thick, heavy curtains of white that muffled the screaming sirens and the frantic honking of yellow taxis. By 10:00 PM on December 31st, 2025, the world had been erased, replaced by a monochrome landscape of frost and shadows.
By omar12 days ago in Families
The Quiet Hope Behind Our New Year’s Resolutions
Every January, we do this quiet, hopeful thing. We stop. We look at the year we just survived. And we say to ourselves, “Next year, I’ll do better.”
By Lori A. A.12 days ago in Families
Gratitude in the wake of loss
As I sit here writing this, I’m still trying to figure out where to begin. These past few days have been heavy...heavier than I expected, especially with the holidays happening around me. My heart has been carrying the weight of losing a family member, a feeling many can relate to. Even though I trust that God is taking care of them, the closeness of their passing has made me think about life in a completely different way.
By Musulyn M (MUSE)12 days ago in Families
The Christmas Hangover
Are you feeling done with Christmas, yet? I've had it with the tinsel, decorations, the food and the presents. The kids are tired and just plain worn out.
By Elizabeth Woods13 days ago in Families
How to Pair Wines with Modern European Dishes in Singapore
Pairing food with wine might sound like something only the wealthy would do, but anyone can do it – it’s really about finding balance. If you do it right, the food and the wine bring out the best in each other. Singapore’s dining scene is constantly evolving, and there’s always something to surprise you, with new chefs experimenting with both food and drinks. If you’re planning to dine at an elegant European restaurant in Singapore, here’s how to pair wine with food.
By John Ashley13 days ago in Families