Lifestyle

It’s not the New Year’s resolutions that preoccupy me this time of year. I make resolutions daily. The true measure of the  ...

Hanukkah isn’t always convenient. There have been many years when we postponed our celebration until winter break when our kids cou ...

Many of us who want to make a rescue animal part of the family have experienced the flip-side to the problem of abandoned pets: foster gr ...

Six months ago I ran a 10K with my daughter in Central Park in New Yor ...

When Fidel Castro died on Nov. 26, I was in Cuba on a cultural exchange with my school. I had the unexpected opportunity to experience th ...

This is the time of year I usually indulge in a shopper's "high," taking my credit cards out for a joy ride, selecting gifts for family and friends. Not after this election.

The turkeys are fed a vegetarian diet, complemented by probiotics. By processing their birds just days before Thanksgiving — 1,200 a da ...

When I was growing up, my grandmother would always bring one dish to Christmas and Thanksgiving. Grandmom made the best baked macaroni an ...

Why is it that on the holiday devoted to thankfulness we eat our least-favorite food? I’m not talking about the “sides” ...

Scurrilous allegations of Canada's blandness and Canadians' tentativeness abound, but Canada abounds in color and character and civility.

In his book, “The Republicans,” Lewis ...

In the city of Philadelphia, police officers respond to over 100,000 domestic-related calls each year. And those are the cases we’r ...

My husband Jon and I have fallen for the same woman. Her name is Amy. Or at least that’s the name the Waze app gives her in ...

Each time the subway stops, the conductor garbles, “This is a broken-down D train.” At least, that’s what I think he ...

How often had I actually been altruistic, I recently wondered, recalling a day in the mid-1990s when, still in my naïve 20s, I ...