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Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on 18 February 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Her portrayal of the black female experience through her writing has moved readers around the world for more than 50 years, and will continue to do so. The Bluest Eye was published in 1970 and would become a Nobel Prize winner, and further bestselling novels would follow, namely Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987) and Jazz (1992). It was not long before Morrison and her work were established firmly as part of the fabric of American life woven into high school syllabuses up and down the...

A monthly meal planner saves you time, money and eat better. Ive always been a big fan of meal planning an entire month at a time because it saves you so much time overall. And after youve created three or four monthly meal plans, you can just keep using those over and over again saving even more time in your busy life. This free printable monthly meal planner has 6 templates so that you can create the best meal plan for your unique situation, needs and preferences. I grew up with a mom that menu planned a month at a...

For Couples Struggling With Money, There Are Ways To Fix What Is Broken One of the number one questions I get emails about on this site has to do with couple money management. How do you handle finances in a relationship? You communicate. It’s as simple as talking to each other. When you are in a relationship you don’t often see the financial side of how a person spends and saves money until you get married. If you live together before you get married then you should have some idea whether a potential partner is a good saver but that’s...

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. On the last Tuesday of July, Tres Biggs stepped into the courthouse in Coffeyville, Kansas, for medical debt collection day, a monthly ritual in this quiet city of 9,000, just over the Oklahoma border. He was one of 90 people who had been summoned, sued by the local hospital, or doctors, or an ambulance service over unpaid bills. Some wore eye patches and...

It was a gray waxed canvas tote that first caught my eye thanks to its repurposed leather strap made from a World War II gun sling. That was at a trade show several years ago, where Margaux and Walter Kent of Peg and Awl were also showcasing wooden bath trays, “apothecary cabinets”, and rope tree swings, all of which looked as if they had been created by nostalgists with very good taste. “Our work is made from old things found and recovered from misfortune and neglect,” they explain. “When the old eludes us, we use sustainable materials. We started making...