When you see a fire hydrant or mailbox or trash can magically highlighted by waves of concentric painted ripples, you do take notice --...

Maybe you think about it once a year – that first blistering day in June that catches you off guard, before you’ve put the AC units back...

Home. You can go back home, no matter what the tropes say. You can have laughs and yummy food and good conversations and hugs. You can...

One thing we’ve learned to appreciate over the past year is the nurturing need to nest. Not just the act of staying safe and healthy at...

Nate, a high school student in Michigan at the time, sent this letter to FCKH8.com, an activist organization for gay youth, who posted it...

“My favorite things to doodle are monsters, aliens and food,” says 11-year-old Joe Whale, aka “The Doodle Boy,” the creative wunderkind...

When Omarr K. Rambert, a recent UCLA School of Law graduate, found out on January 8 that he had passed the California Bar Exam, he was...

Singer-songwriter Clint Buffington didn’t write Jim Croce’s 1973 hit “Time in a Bottle.” He wasn’t even born yet. But it could easily be...

For the past six years, the floral design team of Lewis Miller has installed startlingly beautiful “flower flashes” on street corners,...

“To all the youth in New Orleans, Bring me a gun and I’ll give you a trumpet, no questions asked. I’m doing this until I run out of...

If you don’t know about Tim Tiller, you’ve missed out on one of the few honest-to-goodness treats to come out of an otherwise dark...

The “Teeter-Totter Wall,” which bridged across the border wall at El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, for a brief 40 minutes, has won...

I was on the 15L bus in Denver, Colorado, on my way home from work. The 15L was the East Colfax bus, meaning it didn't serve the fancy,...

Dan McKernan quit his job at a tech company in Texas and moved back to the 140-year-old family farm in Michigan to start an animal...

Local libraries and nonprofits have been in the business of lending free things to the public forever – not just books, but also...

Sometimes diary entries – those private posts people wrote to themselves before the internet was invented – reveal that famous people are...

We love finding and rescuing old letters and keepsake photos from inside books and boxes at second-hand stores. Love letters are...

Can a story that makes you cry also make you happy? This true story of good humor, love and loss in 1990s New York City will bring you to...