Tradition: The first passage from the dictionary defines it as follows; 1) handing down of knowledge, beliefs, customs or the like, from one generation to another. I remember when the musical "Fiddler ...

The word “Halloween” comes from “All Hallows’ Eve,” meaning the evening before All Saints’ Day on November 1. People in Scotland were the first to use this term, with “hallow” translating to saint and ...

We live from moment to moment. We measure time in millennia, decades, years, months, weeks, days, minutes and seconds. This is practical since it allows us to determine our age, celebrate ...

Diwali, or Deepavali, widely known as the Festival of Lights, celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and good over ...

I was 22 years old when I first moved to the city—young and not quite ready for the world. I knew nothing about New Orleans. Folks around the small town I grew up in, in California, wondered aloud, ...