News; birthdays/events; would email reminders of what you purchase help you budget better?; word of the day.
News; game: trivia potpourri; travel mishaps that turned into good stories (a.i. topic); what makes an amusement park or theme park great in your opinion?
News; game: word ladder; a.i. topic: quirky superstitions you follow;
secret family reipes and the stories behind them.
News; game: what do these movies have in common?; is there anything you are exceptionally good or bad at?; goodbye/fun facts....National Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day. Cinnamon-raisin bread has a long history in the making. Its predecessors include stollen, a German fruit bread with spices and candied fruits, kulich, a tall Easter bread served in the Russian and Slavic regions, and panettone, a tall raisin-filled fruit cake made in Italy. But did essayist and poet Henry David Thoreau create cinnamon raisin bread? He did write about it in his journals...but it is believed that the rumor started by Concord housewives because they were delighted by Thoreau's antics. The rumor was perpetuated by a 1943 article in the Ladies Home Journal, that deemed the culinary invention as Thoreau's. This, however, was later disproved by Biographer Walter Harding, who corrected the rumor in the Thoreau Society Bulletin and stated that raisin bread, or plum cake at the time, occurred during the Elizabethan era. If you're going to make your own from scratch...Coating raisins in flour before mixing them into the dough helps keep them evenly distributed.
