Christmas Day is an opportunity for families across the globe to join together and enjoy the company and love of one another. With a large number of traditions to participate in, holiday events can ...

What is the meaning of Christmas? Celebrating the birth of Jesus? Exchanging presents? Feasting with family and friends? Enjoying the festive atmosphere? Decorating and baking? Performing acts of ...

This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something almost unheard of in American pop culture, both then and now. In the middle of ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley, and Kim Strassel. Photo: Anthony Wallace/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/Hans Pennink/Associated Press Walking down ...

As Beth and I walked briskly along the sidewalk on a splendid early summer afternoon in the quintessentially New England-style village of Worthington, OH, we spotted some commotion a few clapboard ...

She was the first woman I fell in love with, and I had just told her so on a brutally cold afternoon. We were walking to her parked car in front of the old college building where we had both attended ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of a holiday series that will run through Dec. 25 in the Grand Forks Herald. GRAND FORKS – The holiday season can be a time for students to connect deeper with the ...

When I launched my financial planning firm a decade ago, my focus was on growth. I wanted to build something from the ground up, serve clients, and expand my impact. I valued independence and was ...

In reference to the op-ed on the commercialization of Santa Claus and how many people didn’t know his history (“How Santa can become less commercialized,” Dec. 7), let’s take this one step further to ...

At the climax of the new Noah Baumbach movie, the fictional movie star Jay Kelly admits to his eldest daughter that he chose his career over his family. “I was right,” he insists. “There’s no other ...

“That’s Entertainment” remains one of The Jam’s most popular songs. But the mostly acoustic track is a musical departure from the band’s signature punk. However, what wasn’t a departure for the mod ...

While the origins of our modern Thanksgiving Day are more a matter of many traditions eventually running into a single idea than the straight line from familiar paintings of the Plymouth Colony’s ...