Category: Daily Special

Play games with your socially distant friends and family over Zoom! In my family, we’ve instituted a weekly scavenger hunt a la Jimmy Kimmel. Grandma names the category – bring me something with wheels! – and the kids scramble to retrieve something clever. Many...

If you’ve been part of our homebound delivery service in the past, or are now restricted to your home by more than the threat of COVID-19, our stalwart volunteer is ready to get back on the road for us, starting June 1.  Call us...

Here, you can learn basic vocabulary terms in American Sign Language!

Kanopy has available a fantastic selection of films by American documentary filmmaker, Les Blank. Blank had a long and productive career, directing over 60 films in more than half a century before his death in 2013. His personal style shines through all his work...

The Internet Archive is a vast trove of precious relics from the ancient technological past.  Among its treasures is this library of vintage games in MS-DOS, including fabled titles like Pac Man, Sim City, and Donkey Kong.  Playable in your browser, they’re the time...

If you need another world to live in (and who doesn’t right now?) while George R. R. Martin is finishing his latest, here are three you won’t want to leave.  Your jumping-off points are Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (“The Wheel of...

Visit the country’s oldest garden, currently celebrating its 200th anniversary. The garden has created an interactive virtual tour with the help of Google Street View, providing 360-degree imagery of its outdoor plants and inside its 30,000 square foot conservatory. Visitors can explore at their...