Technically, Christmas is over — all over our living room floor, that is. ...more

December 25, 2009

Helen Wilson knows thrift. In the years after the Great Depression, she raised chickens and planted vegetables at her home in Alexandria, Va., to feed her children. ...more

December 25, 2009

Food and all those lights, trees, gifts and their wrapping paper make the holidays a lot more festive, but they also considerably increase the amount of trash we produce. ...more

December 25, 2009

The holidays mean lots of trash. Here are some tips to help reduce your carbon footprint this year. ...more

December 24, 2009

When Bonnie Krummer and the rest of the staff at Center State Bank decided to fill the Christmas list for two dozen teens from Florida Baptist Children's Homes' Lakeland campus, they were shocked by what the kids requested. ...more

December 23, 2009

Christmas' effect on pocketbooks can be enough to reduce the good cheer. Like many wholesome traditions, people have found a way to slap a price sticker on the holidays. Every winter celebration will share the common thread, not of purporting religious and cultural motifs, not even of spending extra time with the people we're stuck with. The running trend weaving around Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice is the price tag. ...more

December 9, 2009

Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise, but his present sure was. ...more

January 29, 2009

Holiday recollections lead to monkfish in curry recipe. ...more

December 12, 2008

The girl's sneakers looked brand-new, and Bonnie Kirstein wondered whether it was appropriate to include her on the list of students who would receive donated Christmas gifts. ...more

December 26, 2007

There is still a spot in most of us that understands what this morning really ought to be. Whether you can't see the floor through the mountain of discarded wrapping paper right now while the kids run amok, or you're flying solo, or any point in between, inside we understand the best Christmas present never comes in a box. ...more

December 24, 2007