Last week I shared with you my newest parenting adventure: riding in the backseat for my 15-year-old son Ford’s driver’s education check-ride. What I didn’t tell you is that before being a passenger to the most terrifying drive of my life, I spent the morning at a baby shower. The mother-to-be’s husband used to babysit […]

LAS VEGAS Pizza Hut is fine when you feel like going out. But pizza home is the newest trend, with pizza ovens designed for the kitchen or backyard. This spring, one of the most recognizable names in home appliances will go after a piece of that pie when GE Monogram starts selling a $10,000 electric, […]

HANOVER, Pa. It was several decades ago, but Gettysburg native Bruce Cluck still remembers the hot summers spent hopping on his bike and riding over to Gettysburg Military Park. He’d sit for hours watching a blacksmith re-enactor heat the iron, working the metal into a curved shape to make horseshoes or hammering it into hinges […]

Thinking about writing a memoir, I recently pawed through my late mother’s journal from 1948. I was amazed to read that on my second birthday, my sister, Ruth Anne, herself just four and a half, gave me a wheelbarrow, my first. My parents gave me a watering can. My Uncle Ralph and Auntie Ruth gave […]

What’s the scariest thing you did last week? Here’s mine: I voluntarily got into a “2-ton killing machine,” according to the driving instructor, and let my child take me for a drive — a drive that included two rotaries. By “child,” I mean my 15-year-old son, Ford, who I swear seemed to be sitting criss-cross-applesauce […]

NEW YORK If you’ve got a family — especially one with young kids — then you know putting together healthy meals every night can take more planning and preparation than you have time and energy. Could a subscription service that delivers kits of pre-measured ingredients and recipes be a cost-effective and healthy solution? To find […]

NEW YORK Meal-kit companies have exploded in the past four years, shipping boxes of raw meat, seafood, fresh vegetables and other ingredients to busy city folk who want to skip the supermarket and still cook at home. Now they want to tempt even more people to give them a try. But the companies face several […]

I have great respect for Charles Darwin. He was a scientist who traveled around the world, observed nature, kept great records, collected specimens, applied logic and came up with a theory that changed how we see the world. He wrote “The Origin of Species” in 1859 which presented, clearly and forcefully, the theory which became […]

PAOLI, Ind. Thirteen months after leaving the Amish, Mary and Edward Lambright were implementing a plan they dreamed would one day allow them to build a new life for themselves outside of the plain world in which they were born. The couple believed driving semi-trucks and trailers as team drivers would provide the financial stability […]

To understand my grandmother, Doris, you had to know how Southern she was. Born in 1920, she spent her entire life, until she died recently at the age of 95, in Birmingham, Alabama. Doris didn’t love the South for its controversial past or the riots she lived through in the 1960s. She loved it because […]