Sugar maples, native to the forests of eastern Canada and northern parts of the Central and Eastern United States, paint the landscape each autumn in fiery shades of yellow, orange and red.
There is no question cauliflower has been having a long, popular moment. I was already a cauliflower fan, even a cauliflower lover, mostly favoring sliced and broken chunks of cauliflower tossed with a generous amount of olive oil, sprinkled with a liberal amount of salt and roasted to a dee…
Let the record state: I am not a fan of the plastic hotel room key card.
Hiking is a great way to take advantage of the cool fall weather and beautiful foliage. Most dog owners can agree that no one makes a more willing and eager hiking buddy than their dogs. The American Kennel Club offers tips on what to take along when you and your dog hit the trails together.
Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile, but he gets credit for putting the world on wheels and Detroit on the map as a leader in car manufacturing.
Exercise is the best medicine and the closest thing there is to a fountain of youth. Any exercise can help you live longer, but new research shows some exercises can help you live longer than others.
Some questioned my sanity: I was taking young children on a vacation abroad, mostly alone.
A little mindfulness is part of the collection at many American art museums, which are offering yoga, meditation and other wellness programming as part of the art-viewing experience.
Cast iron, once a common material for pots and pans, has tended in recent years to be used most visibly by either pro chefs or campers. Now it’s trending again in this fall’s kitchenware product previews.
As most U.S. teens were just learning to drive, 15-year-old Marcel Biro was a world away, navigating culinary school.
If you’re into hot yoga, you could find the practice more enjoyable when using a Yogitoes skidless yoga towel on top of your yoga mat. A towel is essential during a hot yoga practice because of the incredible amount of sweat that can drip onto the towel and the mat.
Q: My wife is expecting our first child. My parents are divorced and both remarried; her mom died when my wife was a teenager and her dad remarried. Our policy is that all our parents and stepparents are “Grandma” and “Grandpa” regardless of step-status.
There is a salad on our table almost every single night. Usually it’s lettuce. More often than not, just a bowl of slivered romaine with a tart vinaigrette. Super simple.
A recent study revealed what medical symptoms were the most commonly searched on Google, state by state across the U.S.
Take advantage of the years when you are not limited by school holidays and summer vacation by traveling with your toddlers.
To paraphrase a saying in the wine world, particularly in the segment focused on teaching and learning, “the best way to learn about wine is to drink it.”
The temperature when you start a hike can be very different than when you finish. That makes having the versatile Smartwool women’s merino 250 hoody such a good option to have in the fall.
Q: My younger brother—we are both adults—calls me by an old name—one I was given at birth, have loathed since age 3 and have not willingly used since I was 10.
As weather cools and beaches close, there is little reason to stay home and be bored. Check out these enticements for close-to-home travel.
Summer’s over, and it’s easy to come up with reasons to stop riding your bike. Don’t let light be one of them. The Light & Motion Pro Commuter Combo is a simple-to-operate lighting system that’s the perfect option for both commuters and enthusiasts who want to see and be seen on the roads.
Time to rake up the yard, deadhead the perennials and till the vegetable garden? Not so fast.
Retailers won’t just be battling each other for customers this holiday season—they’re also gearing up to fight over the temporary workers who will make the sales.
With the arrival of fall, my produce thoughts start moving from things that grow above the ground to things that grow under it. Yes, my fellow seasonal cooks, root vegetable season is heading our way.
It’s that time of year again, September, and the oyster’s favorite letter is “R.” Or at least it used to be. There was a time when the prevailing wisdom in the Northern Hemisphere was that it was safe to eat raw oysters only in months with an “R” in them. May, June, July and August were out,…
Paddling across White Iron Lake, I looked up at the sky, cloudless and blue. Then I glided around a bend and spotted them: a pair of slim maple trees, rising from the rocky shoreline, burst into a brilliant orange.
As flu season approaches, with varying vaccine recommendations for children, what’s a parent to do?
Even if the heat still beats down outside, September has arrived. This means temperatures and tree leaves will fall before you know it. Start planning your fall maintenance tasks now. You’ll save time and effort by doing them ahead of schedule. You also might get a better rate and scheduling…
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In a modest residential area—near farmland, railroad tracks and tall grain-storage silos—is an almost-full parking lot at 5:30 p.m. on an average Thursday.
Q: Over a decade, my salary has tripled (I’m quite well-paid now), my work hours and responsibilities have increased, and—because I’m so frequently tired or short on time—my “outsourcing” has increased, too. Think: frequent takeout, a dog-walker, cabs instead of bus, and a whole lot of shell…
We are high above ground and just below the signature “G” that looms 40 feet tall and 60 feet wide. No point in Green Bay is loftier, and what feels simply gusty during summer would freeze the bone in January.
Q: During extended family get-togethers with my side of the family, there is one person who does 95 percent of the talking. When I ask someone else in the room a question about their lives, this person always jumps in and takes over the conversation again. This talker also never inquires abo…
Q: My husband of 15 years has two sisters who live two and four hours away. Sadly, both parents died five years ago. We try to keep the family ties despite the distance.
In 2016, opioids were involved in more than 42,000 deaths in the United States. On average, 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.
Editor’s note: Carolyn is away. This column first appeared on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, 2004.
