A year in pictures: Are you up for the challenge?
About a year ago, I took on Project 365: Document a year in my life by taking a photo a day. If it sounds easy, it isn't. And if it...
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Dry-diving underwater Hawaii
Not everybody wants to snorkel or scuba dive in Maui. Particularly those of us who (full sheepish disclosure) don't know how to swim. The Maui Ocean Center wasn't built for...
Water safety for youngsters
Parents magazine's website devotes a lot of space to water safety — responding in part to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics that looked at 209 incidents of children...
Water safety for youngsters
Parents magazine's website devotes a lot of space to water safety — responding in part to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics that looked at 209 incidents of children...
Devil in disguise
For a cake that can inspire so much cursing, the angel food cake owns a seriously perverse name. Attaining that sweet tower of angelic goodness is a lesson in suffering....
Drew and Susan Goss, and others we’re looking forward to at Printers Row Lit Fest 2011
Trib Nation is continuing its look ahead to next weekend's Printer's Row Lit Fest. Lifestyle/Books editor Pam Becker asked our Chicago Tribune colleagues which events they were looking forward to.Here...
Little tips can provide big support
Kerry Colburn didn't write "Mama's Big Book of Little Lifesavers" (Chronicle, $14.95) to offer philosophical theories of child-rearing or supply solutions to complex problems. Instead, as the book's subtitle spells...
Saddle up for a different look at Maui
Most travelers enjoying Maui's great outdoors are content lying on the beach and frolicking in the water. No argument there. But consider a trek on horseback, particularly to parts of...
Saddle up for a different look at Maui
Most travelers enjoying Maui's great outdoors are content lying on the beach and frolicking in the water. No argument there. But consider a trek on horseback, particularly to parts of...
Stitching together the case for sewing
Sewing is one of those life skills that will serve a child through adulthood. There's the practical wisdom of knowing how to sew on a button or hem a pair...