Does your bathroom vanity resemble a kindergarten classroom on finger-painting day? Then it's time to clean up your act. ...more

December 30, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG – A family of six were sleeping in different beds Saturday night after the home they were renting caught fire in the afternoon. ...more

August 16, 2008

Today, nearly itch free, I must thank the dozens of readers who stumbled upon last week's column about being, as we say in my neck of the woods, "eat up" with poison ivy and offered their sympathies, remedies and horror stories of gigantic, oozing sores that I will never be able to remove from my brain no matter how many times I jab myself in the ear with the sharp end of a No. 2 pencil. ...more

August 3, 2008

More and more, pets are a part of the family and enjoy many of the comforts of home. ...more

July 20, 2008

Sharon Jones is having her hair done while answering a reporter's questions by telephone. She just wants to make sure she can be heard over the noise from the hair dryer under which she's sitting. ...more

January 17, 2008

It was a shopping extravaganza. Not at a chic mall, but in a converted area of Jefferson High School's gymnasium, where tables were filled with gift cards, movie passes, jewelry, flat irons, purses, makeup bags, University of Florida, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jefferson High shirts, footballs, basketballs and candy. ...more

December 15, 2007

Now that my husband and I are retired and have the time to travel freely, the road has become an open invitation: visit the kids, stop and see friends, explore the country and the world. ...more

October 20, 2007

A number of homes in Hillsborough County are slated for safety inspections, not by any official government teams but by newly deputized, pint-sized Safety Rangers. ...more

October 8, 2007

Some Dominican stylists speak little English. If your Spanish is not so good, here are a few key terms you're likely to hear when visiting: ...more

September 18, 2007