Cold weather has arrived in our neck of the woods, the intense type of chill that hurts your face when you step outside. The mere act of going outdoors feels like being slapped. I grew up in the shadow of the Cold War wherein we worried about being turned into human French fries by Russian ...

Question: Hello, I am looking at getting my kids an e-scooter for Christmas. I was just curious before making the purchase what are the laws and rules for these things. Answer: Motorized foot scooters (also termed “electric scooters” or “e-scooters”) have seen a marked increase in use ...

(Columnist’s note: I am a big fan of the cartoon strip “Peanuts.” My Christmas column always involves Charlie Brown and his friends, and how they can tell us an important story.) Charlie Brown was perplexed and anxious. He wondered why people always seemed so happy during the holiday ...

We all feel it at some point and to some degree. As we anticipate the holiday season and see the extra waste that we all have during the holidays, please rest assured that there are a few easy things to do that we can embrace easily that will help us reduce waste in our homes during the holiday ...

In “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the best TV show of all time, Charlie is frustrated in his effort to find the true meaning of Christmas. Spoiler alert. In the end he does. But before then, Lucy tells him, “Look Charlie, let’s face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial ...

“The Cat Who Came for Christmas, by Cleveland Amory,” c 1987 is a wonderful book to read. I often pick up this book to a page I’ve marked (it’s my book), and think about a passage like the one on page 76 that tells us that President Abraham Lincoln found three half-frozen kittens at ...