In 1985, Richard Dean Anderson sat in a Los Angeles studio office flipping through the script of a new ABC pilot called MacGyver. Fresh off his role as Dr. Jeff Webber on General Hospital, Anderson wasn’t exactly looking for another mainstream television gig. He’d already begun to feel typecast as a soap actor, and the […]

My mom once told me about the day she walked into a room and overheard friends talking about her. They didn’t know she was there. She just shook her head, smiled, and walked away. 🕊 She also told me about a friend who spoke badly about her behind her back. That friend never knew Mom […]

Lizzie Magie, born in 1866 in Illinois, invented The Landlord’s Game in 1903 to teach players about economic inequalities. She patented it in 1904 with the goal of illustrating Henry George’s single-tax theory and exposing the dangers of land monopolies and speculation through the game’s mechanics. In 1936, after Monopoly became a commercial hit thanks […]