In just a blink of an eye, April is almost over. May begins on Tuesday with International Worker's Day, which is like Labor Day for the entire world. When I was a kid, May the first meant we no longer had to wear shoes o...

Hey, this is a milestone, one which means nothing to anyone but me. It's the 100th "This Week at Neatorama" post! Nobody has told me whether these weekend posts have been any use at all to readers, but they help me to su...

Man, this has been a busy week around here! We've had what must be a record number of giveaways, features, and discussions -at least it might be some kind of record when you put them all together. I hope this kind of thi...

The Jewish feast of Passover, or Pesach, began last night, and will last until sundown on April 14th. The Christian Holy Week continues with Easter tomorrow. The fact that the holidays often land so close together on the...

Yep, it's another holiday weekend, as tomorrow is April Fool's Day. But what do you do when it falls on a Sunday? In the last couple of decades, I see people tending to stretch holidays across several days to extend the...

This past week has been an eventful one here at Neatorama! We had more than the usual number of feature articles, a contest with lots of winners, and joined another social networking site. Yes, Neatorama is now on Pinter...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Sorry, kids, you won't get any points for wearing green to school because it's a Saturday. But that just makes the adult parties a little easier to do! Americans like to celebrate everyone's holi...

Spring forward! It seems to happen earlier and earlier every year -or is that just me? Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow in most of the United States, so set your clocks forward one hour before you retire for the nigh...

What a week this has been! March came in like a lion, alright. Tornadoes and strong thunderstorms both Wednesday and Friday left a trail of death and destruction across the Midwest. The Friday storms left me without inte...

We've arrived at the last week of February, and I mistakenly thought that we'd gone through all the many holidays of the month, but no. Coming up Wednesday we have Leap Day, which takes on a holiday atmosphere just becau...