On the night of April 1, 2026, there will be a full moon known as the Pink Moon. Despite the name, it won’t look pink. The name comes from Phlox subulata, a small creeping wildflower native to eastern North America that tends to bloom right around this time of year. It covers the ground in...
You’re at dinner, and someone makes a comment about your life choices, the kind that might hit like a slap wrapped in a smile. Maybe you pick up your glass, hold your ground in your head for a second, and tell yourself to move on. Then your Aries friend, two seats down, leans over and...
James Van Der Beek died of colorectal cancer on February 11, 2026. He was 48 years old and left behind his wife, Kimberly, and six children, ranging from Olivia at fifteen down to Jeremiah at four. Within hours, friends of the family launched a GoFundMe, describing how more than two years of cancer treatment had...
There is a quiet rule in the world of women’s hair that nobody remembers agreeing to. Somewhere around your mid-40s, you are supposed to cut it all off. Not because you want to. But because our culture has decided that long hair past a certain age sends the wrong message. Keep it long, and the...
Someone you haven’t spoken to in months crosses your mind, not as a gradual memory but as a flash, and then your phone buzzes with their name. The timing feels too precise to be random, and the feeling it leaves behind is hard to put into words, even when you know exactly what happened. The...
Most people who follow astrology know their zodiac sign and stop there. Maybe they’ve read a few horoscopes, maybe they know they’re a Scorpio or a Gemini, but that tends to be as far as it goes. There is another layer that both astrologers and numerologists work with, one that most people never think about....
Take a look at the grid below and count every square you can find. Take your time. Got your number? Good, hold onto it because we will come back to it later. Most people who try this come up short, and the real total is higher than almost anyone expects on the first attempt. But...
Some people have heard their whole lives that they’re ‘too sensitive’ or that they ‘notice everything.’ In astrology, those aren’t criticisms. They’re descriptions of a sense that certain signs are born with, one that the zodiac frames as a sixth channel of awareness tied to planetary rulers and elemental energy that picks up information nobody...
Will Ferrell once said that before you marry a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are. The Substack newsletter Curiosaday featured that line in October 2024 as an example of how Ferrell buries genuine wisdom inside absurd comedy. It’s the kind of quote that floats...
A piano prodigy, Miss A, a name her parents chose to keep their daughter’s identity private, sat at a piano in a pink dress and a neat updo in March 2025, placed her hands on the keys, and played Beethoven’s Für Elise entirely from memory. She was 4 years old. When she finished, she moved...
Not all states offer the same level of maternal and infant care. Care quality and outcomes vary widely by state, directly affecting families’ experiences and babies’ safety. A recent analysis by WalletHub looked at all 50 states to determine which are top-performing and worst-performing for new families, considering factors like healthcare costs, quality of care,...
In 1990, fewer than 1 in 10 American divorces involved someone over 50. By 2019, that figure had risen to more than 1 in 3. Dr. Susan L. Brown, a family demographer and Distinguished Research Professor at Bowling Green State University, has been tracking this shift for nearly 2 decades through the Health and Retirement...
