Marla Paul

Your neighbor breezes by you as she walks her Doberman. As they pass, you sniff an unfamiliar cologne. "Hey, Susan, are you wearing a new perfume?" "Not me -- Heathcliff."...

Wondering how to pry your little darlings away from their computer screens, video games and TV sets this summer? Try sending them away to milk a cow, feed some goats...

Ever wish you knew what your pet lizard, ferret, cat, dog, horse or parakeet was really thinking? Lydia Hiby does. She says she knows what's on the mind of approximately...

Searching for the goddess in yourself? You may find her on a mountain top in Crete. That's where, in about 2000 B.C., ancient civilizations worshipped the Goddess, who represented regeneration,...

"I am a person. I am special. I am important. Not because of things I do, not because of what I look like, not because of what I have ....

When Laura Irene Wayne was growing up in Michigan, she didn't mind a tumble in the dirt, and she especially loved playing sports. She had strong muscles, but she felt...

Any mother who works outside the home knows the challenges of prying the details of her infant's day from the caregiver. Melanie Goldish, of Hoffman Estates, has come up with...

The Original Pants Extender can come to your rescue anytime you find yourself with an expanded waistline--after a big meal or even early in a pregnancy. You had a good...

There are some travel products that give a whole new meaning to the word toiletries. They are answers to nature's call, which women in exotic countries -- heck, make that...

They're baaaaack. Any woman who grew up in the 1960s probably still has dents in her scalp from sleeping -- make that attempting to sleep -- on a head full...