A few years ago at Thanksgiving, when I asked my then-husband to lift an unusually large pot of potatoes off the stove for me, two elder female relatives pounced.“You don’t need him to do that,” said one as she grabbed the pot of boiling water and rushed it to the sink. “Do it yourself.”“He likes […]

Middle-school program empowers students with food skills to last a lifetime. On a typical Tuesday, the aroma of tasty food wafts throughout the hallways at Auburn Middle School. There are sights and sounds of onions being chopped, cheese being grated and dough being rolled out. Giggles can be overheard among questions, including: “Is this enough?” […]

When Ronnie Duvall found out a friend’s daughter had been diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma inoperable brain tumor, he began to do extensive research on pediatric cancer. All the research did was make him angry. So he decided to start a fight against pediatric cancer by driving across the country, hitting every contiguous state, […]

Poor Pinocchio, he never had a chance. A new study in Nature Neuroscience confirms the reason for the puppet’s ever-growing proboscis: The more we practice prevarication, the easier it gets. In the latest contribution to research literature on lying, scientists at University College London and Duke University have shown that repetition of small lies weakens […]

After a summer of play, fall is our chance to prepare a house for the cold months ahead. There’s weatherstripping to check, patio furniture to store, gutters to clean. And yet there are always those smaller things that we forget until it’s the middle of a cold snap and we’re the grasshopper, wishing we had […]

Once upon a time, there was a catalogue filled with dozens of beautiful costumes – the “Medieval Queen,” the “Demon Dragon,” the “Ultimate Wonder Woman Dawn of Justice” —  that arrived at a home in Washington, D.C.But of all the beautiful costumes in this catalogue, one 6-year-old girl loved only the “Peachy Southern Belle.”Now, this […]

Sandy Chilewich loves to challenge people’s perceptions of a properly set table. The founder and creative director of the Chilewich brand of place mats dumped traditional linen tablecloths 16 years ago for a more modern look. Her line of woven vinyl place mats and runners, made of a material produced for the outdoor furniture industry, […]

Buried on page 86 of the October J. Crew catalog is a sentence to chill the blood of any man who has shopped for clothing in the past five years: “We widened our ties by ¼” to keep up with today’s changing proportions.” It is almost an aside. Nearly an afterthought! But for the loyal […]