Tag: Life & Tradition

VIDEO: Woman Saved a Baby Java Sparrow Found On The Ground; Now He Visits To Sing To Her

A fellow named Dave on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, stumbled across a tiny creature crawling in the wet grass in 2019—it was a delicate, helpless baby bird. Dave looked for a nest or mother bird but could find neither. Not knowing what to do, he put the creature in his pocket to keep it…


Daughter Holds Wedding Ceremony in Dying Mom’s Hospital: ‘It Was Such a Small Gift to Give Her’

A beautiful bride who wanted her mother to be a part of her wedding day planned to have her vows held at her mother’s hospital chapel. While terminal cancer took away her mother’s life the very next day, she cherishes the precious memories that were made, and her mother’s final “Thank you,” for a lifetime….


Anti-Coddling Mountain-Life Dad Lets Skiing 3-year Old Tumble; Now She’s a ‘Little Ripper’ on Slopes

Dad Erich Leidums grew up “free range” in the 1990s—before smartphones and today’s hyper-realistic video games—when kids got outside a lot more than today and rode their bikes until the streetlights glowed. The 34-year-old ski patroller knows that the outdoor life instills confidence and resilience, which is why his family chose to live in the…


Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink Reopens

SAN RAMON, Calif.—The seasonal Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink held its opening ceremony on Nov. 17 this year with special ice-skating performances. The outdoor rink, located at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, California, was canceled last year due to the pandemic. This year, people told NTD Television they are glad to be back…


Hotel’s Chef and Engineers Construct Annual Life-Size Gingerbread House

SAN FRANCISCO—Making a gingerbread house is a holiday tradition, but the hotel Fairmont San Francisco takes it to a new level by creating a life-size, two-story-high Victorian gingerbread house. Professionals working on it told NTD Television that planning for it starts early on. “We had to start several months ago, back in July,” said Michael…


2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe

Jeep’s Wrangler 4xe is powered by a 2.0-liter direct-injection Turbo PHEV engine assisted by electric drive motors and 8P75PREV 8-speed automatic transmission. This first-ever electrified Wrangler will be initially offered in three trim levels: Sahara 4xe, Rubicon 4xe, and High Altitude 4xe. Focus for this column will be on the Rubicon. The gas-electric hybrid Wrangler…


How to Make Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Pot Pie

Regardless of the size of your Thanksgiving gathering, one thing is always true: There will be leftovers. Some people, like my husband’s family, like the leftovers almost as much as the dinner themselves and roast the largest turkey they can so that there can be days of turkey sandwiches. Me? I tire quickly of eating…


A Literary Thanksgiving: 3 Stories, 3 Children’s Books, and a Compendium

Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” Robert May’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” which later became a song most of us recognize, and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss—these and other stories are now classics of the Christmas season. As for Thanksgiving, well, that beloved holiday definitely plays…


Leading by Example: How Painter Sister Plautilla Nelli Persevered Against the Odds

Great artists converse with our hearts without uttering a word. They animate the greatest and most tragic moments in life, from battlefields that appear gut-wrenchingly real to divine jubilations that make our souls sing. But seldom do we celebrate the way these artists lived in the world: how they overcame challenges, how they stayed true…


What Good Is Poetry? The Deliverance of John Donne’s ‘Death, Be Not Proud’

As autumn falls in the flashing splendor and fading light of a dying season, we are invited, with the inevitability of the seasons, to face an inevitable fact: We, too, must die. No matter how commonplace this truth, it is still brutal in its brevity. How one understands it, however, makes all the difference—and good…