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04/26/2026

I keep getting a bombarded with unpleasant things.Thank goodness ,

my bed
is my refuge

04/19/2026

Trees save lives.

In the winter of 1910, the forests of Coos County, Oregon, went quiet in a way no one expected.
When the logging camp shut down during a bitter labor dispute, workers were turned out of their company-owned bunks with nothing but the clothes on their backs and wages that would never come. Oskar, a 36-year-old Swedish immigrant who had crossed an ocean chasing the promise of steady work in the great Douglas fir forests, suddenly had no camp, no paycheck, and no plan. Beside him stood his wife Britta — 33, practical, and completely undefeated by the situation — and their four children, all watching their father's face for a sign of what came next.
What came next was a tree.
Deep in the old growth, they found it — a fire-scarred Douglas fir nearly twelve feet wide at its base, its interior hollowed out by some long-ago blaze into a dark, dry chamber just large enough for a family that had no other options. Oskar stretched a canvas sheet across the opening. Britta, without complaint and without fanfare, fashioned a small stove out of salvaged rail spikes. The children gathered wood. And the family moved in.
Seven months they lived there, through the dripping Pacific winter and into the first warmth of spring. Every morning, the four children rose, dressed, and walked three miles through the forest to the schoolhouse — three miles back in the afternoon. The local community came to know them gently as "the tree kids," a name the children wore with more pride than embarrassment. Their classroom peers, who had roofs and walls, never quite forgot the children who didn't need them.
Oskar and Britta scraped together income the only way the forest would allow — gathering pine cones, doing odd work, stretching every coin. Slowly, impossibly, savings accumulated. When spring turned to summer and summer turned to enough, they walked out of the tree and into a land office, where they purchased two acres of their own ground.
Years later, when someone finally asked Britta what it had been like, she didn't pause.
"The company took our house," she said. "But the tree gave us one — and for that, we were grateful."
There are people who survive hardship. And then there are people who look hardship in the eye, hang a canvas door on it, and make it home.

02/06/2026

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12/27/2025

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10/25/2025

Why it's important to invest carefully when it comes to your bed.

You need a firm foundation
For "The Rest of Your Life:

They invested in a mattress and discovered the secret to lasting marriage could lie in what happens in bed. Their story began in July 1996, when Barbra Streisand and James Brolin met on a blind dinner date arranged by friends. Barbra, expecting a “mountain-man” type, instead spotted James’s clean-cut look and teased him about his haircut—an unexpected ice-breaker that nonetheless sparked something real. By July 1, 1998, the two were married in a star-filled backyard ceremony at Barbra’s Malibu home, complete with a live serenade from the bride herself. Over the years, the couple embraced the unusual: they maintained separate bank accounts, openly admitted that couples therapy and cool-down walks were part of their marriage toolkit, and revealed that the most successful investment they made together wasn’t a home or a car—it was their mattress, the place they worked, read, rested and connected side-by-side. As they approach three decades together, this blend of humor, honesty and late-life romance stands as their defining legacy. 🔗 people 📸 /instagram

10/07/2025

08/22/2025

A great talent!

Born in Boston in 1942 and raised in New York City, Madeline Kahn dreamed of becoming an opera singer. With a classically trained soprano voice and a gift for timing, she could move effortlessly from Mozart to Mel Brooks—and she did.

Her film debut in What’s Up, Doc? (1972) made audiences take notice. Mel Brooks did too. He cast her as Lily Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles, where her Marlene Dietrich-inspired parody earned her an Oscar nomination. In Young Frankenstein, her over-the-top swoons and sly improvisations left Gene Wilder confessing, “She was the only one who could make me break character.”

Even in small roles, like her Oscar-nominated turn as Trixie Delight in Paper Moon, she stole every scene. Directors sometimes found her bold instincts challenging—but audiences saw only brilliance.

On stage, she soared. In 1993, she won a Tony Award for Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig. And even as she battled ovarian cancer in the 1990s, she continued to shine on the sitcom Cosby, bringing warmth and wit to every episode.

In October 1999, she married her partner John Hansbury in an intimate Central Park ceremony. Just two months later, she passed away at 57. Friends remembered her calm grace: “I want to laugh through all the tough moments,” she said. And she did.

Madeline Kahn wasn’t just funny. She was fearless, musical, radiant. She left us too soon, but her legacy proves that true originality never fades.

08/21/2025

06/24/2025

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06/24/2025

Chicago’s largest and arguably most iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has put the wheels in motion and applied to open a specialty location at O’Hare International Airport. This would make the City of Big Shoulders home to the very first gay bar inside of an airport in the United States.

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