This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Colleen Slagen, the author of "Naming Bebe: An Interactive Guide to Choosing a Baby Name You Love." It has been edited for length and clarity.

Options include naming a feral cat after your old flame before it’s neutered — or giving rodents or cockroaches your love bug’s name before feeding them to bigger animals. The Minnesota Zoo ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Feel like dissing instead of kissing your former lover this Valentine's Day? Think your ex is more like a rat than a prince? Do you believe your former paramour should never ...

A snowy owl named Ghost eats a frozen rat at the Bird Treatment and Learning Center on Feb. 6, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. The center is among animal shelters and zoos around the country providing ...

A Catholic ministry called Eden Invitation is working to “create space to receive the whole person” for people with LGBTQ+ experiences. Founders Anna Carter and Shannon Ochoa said they started ...

The ceremony at Mission Memorial Auditorium celebrated the contributions of Black Americans to Oahu, Hawaii, and country. Camille Nelson, dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the ...

A Welcome to Country ceremony and performances open the 47th parliament in Canberra in 2022.Credit: James Brickwood But beyond the cost-cutting rhetoric lies a political play that taps into a more ...

When a place of work is to be blessed, both those who labor there and those who share the fruit of that labor should be invited to the ceremony. All make the Sign of the Cross. The leader begins ...

I'm a naming consultant, and sibling set names are hot right now. Here's what I recommend — and when to change course.

Animal shelters and zoos in the US and Canada are hosting darkly humorous fundraisers, that involves a person naming an animal, such as a wild cat, a rat or even cockroaches, after their former ...