It’s graduation season and we have been making the rounds honoring parents and students for such a monumental achievement. It can be an exciting and frightening time. New adventures are starting, and we hope our children are ready. Since I am not a perfect parent, I am here to share my ...

I was looking online for a cookie recipe because I was too lazy to walk to the end of the kitchen for the recipe book. As I scrolled through countless variations, one common thread was to list the number of ingredients in the recipe. I understand searching for a recipe that eliminates an ...

My parents saved everything. I genuinely feel this isn’t an exaggeration. When I sold my mother’s house, I found bank statements from the 1950s tucked around bonds and birth certificates. It was overwhelming to go through all the envelopes, trying to figure out what was necessary versus ...

Whether working outside, with hand tools or fixing up a house, there is a rite of passage: the emergency room trip for an updated tetanus shot. We live in an area where our yard is filled with buried treasure, if you consider treasure to be rusty nails, old septic systems and wire fencing. ...

I planted a dwarf cherry tree a few years ago, and it is finally bearing fruit. I know this because the deer jumped our fence to pick the bottom half of the tree clean. The deer couldn’t be bothered before, but now I have to fight for my right to have fruit. Like most things swirling around ...

Is it possible black flies are more prone to bite people with a specific blood type? I was recently informed that blood type may be why some people are bitten by insects more than others. Why hasn’t the government harnessed that kind of bug-flying power? The capability of a tiny flying insect ...