Scott Johnston has his feet on the ground but his heart in the air. Day in and out, he trusts his life to a harness, coils of half-inch rope and 35 years of knowledge gained by working in trees. “Do you want me to rig up and climb a tree?” he asked. That’s all right, […]

If you know anything of the wombat, it’s probably that the Australian marsupials poop in cubes (because okay, that’s pretty memorable). But listen up: the butts that produce those fecal oddities are pretty dang interesting in their own right. Wombats are epic burrowers. Their warrens can be 10 feet deep, 16 feet long, and include […]

We met on a dating app: Bumble. It’s known for being the women’s app because, after a match, only women can send the first message. The rapport was instantaneous and we quickly escalated from in-app messaging to texting, to making plans to meet. We even talked on the phone once or twice. He seemed to […]

Ryan Garrison’s service dog wouldn’t stop bugging him. At a dinner outing with his wife, Julie, at Fleming’s Steakhouse in Baltimore, Garrison was growing nervous, clenching his hands. Being in public spaces had been a problem for the veteran since his return from Iraq, where he fractured two disks in his spine escaping a grenade […]

Recent online special guests included mixologist Gina Chersevani. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. Recipes whose names are capitalized can be found at washingtonpost.com/recipes. Q: Can you recommend a soup that will still be as enticing on the second or third day? I love making soup but find that I tire of the flavor […]

Speaking in omnivorous terms, you can’t have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes or burger recipes. I’d recommend adding this one to your repertoire of the latter because it’s easy and yields consistently juicy results. You needn’t be worried about the level of heat. Even though Sriracha is invoked in the recipe title, the hot […]

This cake’s name refers to some key ingredients the recipe doesn’t call for, which were rationed in America during World Wars I and II: butter, milk and eggs. But I like it for what it has aplenty: big chocolate flavor, a moist, fudgy crumb and one-pan ease. Healthful oil replaces the butter, making this version […]

It didn’t look like much: Just a little bag of brown grains. I whizzed them in the blender to make flour, then cooked up a batch of pancakes. They looked like pancakes. And tasted like them, too – though did I perhaps detect a hint of malt? I looked over at my 4-year-old, a precision […]