Jun-uary, as a friend calls this chilly season, has me regretting putting away my winter flannel sheets. My allergies are in full bloom as I battle blackflies while wearing a down parka. There are way too many conflicting things happening at once. Since I don’t enjoy weeding, I use ...

Is your teenage son or daughter approaching the age for getting a car? Families with newly licensed teens have a wide range of options this year when it comes to safe vehicles for their novice driver. An updated list of suggested vehicles for teens from the Insurance Institute for Highway ...

At the farmers’ market, I encountered a vegetable I was unfamiliar with. Komatsuna, a Japanese leafy green, is one of the earliest vegetables available because it is very fast-growing. In more moderate climates than ours, it can be grown year-round and is more heat and cold-tolerant than ...

This column was prompted by a story in the May 16 Enterprise concerning a new state law that paper boys and girls must be at least age 14. The Associated Press story by Michael Hill reports that New York’s child labor laws allowed kids as young as 11 to legally partake in the ...

Parents have been asking me to step to it and provide some information on intoeing in their infants and toddlers. Let me put my best foot forward about this topic. Definition and causes Intoeing is a condition in which the feet curve inward instead of pointing straight ahead. It can ...

I’ve been in a bunch of casinos, literally from Las Vegas to Kathmandu, and I haven’t lost a nickel in any of them. Know why? I don’t gamble. My reason be summed up by an old adage I heard as a callow youth. It was: If you don’t wanna lose in Las Vegas, as soon as ...