:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/GettyImages-91993892-1a95fee0117c464ab0bf7427ee8c220f.jpg "The 2000s Paint Trend We Hope Never Comes Back")
If you wanted to add a dramatic element to your walls in the early 2000s, chances are you considered sponge painting. Part of the appeal was that the technique is fairly intuitive—paint the base color, then dab a textured sponge into the second color and blot—and technically, there’s no wrong way to execute it. Nowadays,…
“Gratitude must smell, if it has a smell, of rain-soaked earth,” the late Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias once wrote. Asturias’ musings on gratitude remind me of my grandmother, who was born in 1912 in a farming village in the Carpathian Mountains forming the border between modern-day Slovakia and Poland. It was a country…
A FedEx deliveryman used garage tools to kill a rattlesnake he found outside someone’s door. The homeowner said the driver should be nominated for “Employee of the Year.” “Sorry about the blood,” the driver said in a text to the homeowner. Neither snow nor rain nor snakes, apparently. A FedEx driver in Nebraska who came face…
