Denise Joyce

There are some basic truths to parenting: Babies will cry and not sleep, 2-year-olds will cry and not sleep, and teens will bring parents to tears and sleep till noon....

Summer's exodus of Illinois residents into northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula takes many Land of Lincoln drivers through the small town of Mercer, Wis., land of a giant loon....

Soft addictions may be hard to break, but doing so is a way to put more--or More, as this book puts it--in your life. So, what is a "soft addiction"?...

Science has concluded that there's a genetic explanation--the Frizzled 6 gene--for oddly behaving hair. Despite that enlightenment, there's still a bit of mystery associated with hair. For instance, after years...

Think of "Cereal for Dinner: Strategies, Shortcuts and Sanity for Moms Battling Illness" (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95) as a permission slip for ailing moms to ask for help. Author Kristine...

It's the night before my 19-year-old son will board a plane and head off to a summer job that will find him in the back country of one of those...

SPORTS FANS Cub fan takes that curse and stuffs it As if White Sox fans don't have enough to get annoyed about, now they must deal with Curse Breaker Inc....

CAMOUFLAGE DIRTY LAUNDRY One of the rules of bargain hunting: Never pass an Army-Navy store without stopping in. Where else can you find dinged-up mess kits and canteens for the...

During a recent dental appointment, Diane, our favorite hygienist, asked if we planned to see "The Passion of the Christ." Probably not, was the response. We like for our movies...

Few lipstick wearers ever make peace with the apply/release/repeat cycle. Extended-wear lipsticks, however, promised something different when they rode into drugstores a few years ago: Namely, that a single application...