Jordan has moved 10 times in the last three years, but his most unsettling news came when his mother recently sat him down and asked, "How would you feel about your dad going to Iraq?"
An insurance study has once again found that Sioux Falls has the safest drivers in the nation.
I met Sally in the fourth grade. Who knows why, but we instantly hit it off.
Carolyn Barnes spent much of her childhood wishing for a different life: a life with a home.
If the throngs of crazed customers clutching registry printouts at the Crate and Barrel are any indication, wedding season is once again upon us.
Baseball stole Art Pennington's future. The Cedar River washed away his past.
Apprehensive about shopping for a new car? Afraid you'll say the wrong thing to a car dealer that will give him the upper hand in the price battle?
Greg Melville's neighbors in Vermont looked at him like he was crazy 2½ years ago when he drove what he refers to as his "vegetable vehicle." It's a car that runs on vegetable oil instead of gasoline.
Think only celebrities, high-ranking professionals and the wealthy can enjoy having personal assistants at their beck and call? Not necessarily.
Jordan has moved 10 times in the last three years, but his most unsettling news came when his mother recently sat him down and asked, "How would you feel about your dad going to Iraq?"
An insurance study has once again found that Sioux Falls has the safest drivers in the nation.
I met Sally in the fourth grade. Who knows why, but we instantly hit it off.
Carolyn Barnes spent much of her childhood wishing for a different life: a life with a home.
If the throngs of crazed customers clutching registry printouts at the Crate and Barrel are any indication, wedding season is once again upon us.
Baseball stole Art Pennington's future. The Cedar River washed away his past.
Apprehensive about shopping for a new car? Afraid you'll say the wrong thing to a car dealer that will give him the upper hand in the price battle?
Greg Melville's neighbors in Vermont looked at him like he was crazy 2½ years ago when he drove what he refers to as his "vegetable vehicle." It's a car that runs on vegetable oil instead of gasoline.
Think only celebrities, high-ranking professionals and the wealthy can enjoy having personal assistants at their beck and call? Not necessarily.
Sharon Crossman hadn't tasted fresh fruits or vegetables in a week. After her husband had two heart attacks and stopped working, she has relied on disability checks and the free food provided by a food pantry.
The throngs filling campgrounds across America this weekend will include hardy outdoor types and those who prefer creature comforts, but they'll have at least one important thing in common: Nearly all of them are white.
It's hard to feel completely liberated from work and family stresses if you're facing a set of new ones, like whether you're overdressed for your massage or undertipping an aesthetician. Sidestep these little land mines so that nothing sabotages your spa experience.
The Rev. John McLaughlin never served in the military, but he's faced unexpected, violent death in the way troops do.
Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness.
An Ohio couple has been repaid for a liquid asset they shared 34 years ago.
Popularity is one reason to choose something; a shirt, a new car, even someone to date.
In his hunt for a new home, Demetrius Stroud crunched the numbers to find out that, with gas prices climbing, moving near an Amtrak station is the best thing for his wallet.
Call it hedonistic environmentalism. Or maybe just eco-conscious imbibing.
Maybe it's all the news of "Anonymous" protests against Scientology that have been dominating the blogs lately, but it seems the word "cult" is on a lot of people's minds. Which makes me think about just how many cults there are out there -- and not just the religious kind, either.
Oliver Peck may be seeing the number 13 in his dreams.
The throngs filling campgrounds across America this weekend will include hardy outdoor types and those who prefer creature comforts, but they'll have at least one important thing in common: Nearly all of them are white.
Golf's U.S. Open teed off Thursday at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. We dug through the championship's history to find some crucial details (and trivial moments, too
Take a short drive just about anywhere and glance at the car or truck next to you. Chances are you'll get a feel for what the owner of that vehicle sees as "clean" -- underscoring the obvious difference in standards that exist among owners.
iReporter James Holler is the first to admit that he drives a gas-guzzler -- in fact, he has two of them.
One need not have a teenage driver in the family to know that the link between young drivers and motor vehicle crashes is an ongoing and costly public issue, both in lives lost and property damage.
Starting a legitimate business is hard, boring work. There's paperwork to fill out, employees to hire, and all sorts of other drudgery, not to mention the biggest hurdle of all: providing a product or service for which customers are willing to pay.
The flowers have been selected, the Veterans' Memorial Center has been booked, and the three-piece band has been chosen. The e-invitations have gone out and relatives are flying in. The brides -- and there will be two of them -- might not have time to buy something new to wear, but that's OK.
Consumer Reports recently announced its annual used cars ratings, and we weren't surprised to see one of the major categories was "Best in Fuel Economy."
A window opening. A glimpse of the ungraspable. A sudden surge of love ... or hope ... or awe. We asked artists, writers, thinkers, and doers to recall the flashes of understanding that took their breath away.
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work day.
Oil prices have some drivers looking for new rides, but some truck and sport-utility vehicle owners are remaining true to their gas guzzlers. They say, $4-a-gallon gas be damned; they need the space.
Renters may be the biggest winners in the current housing slump, especially in places like Florida, Las Vegas and Southern California, that have thousands of vacant for-sale and foreclosed homes and condos on the market.
Does filling the gas tank leave your wallet empty and spirit sputtering? Get used to both because almost everything car-related is costing more.
Diana Bardsley wiped tears from her eyes as she recalled taking food off her plate to feed her beloved spaniel Hunter and two Siamese cats.
Consumer Reports recently announced its annual used cars ratings, and we weren't surprised to see one of the major categories was "Best in Fuel Economy."
As midnight approached, a grassy field where the old train depot once stood pulsed with activity.
For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals.
Microphone in hand, the Rev. Art Cribbs eases himself onto the chancel steps until he is at eye-level with the tiniest of his congregants. They gather around eagerly as he pulls out a toy globe and begins to spin it, his finger stopping on Africa.
Mary McPhail, a 47-year-old online retailer from Bexley, Ohio, will never forget her wedding to husband and business partner Geord Douglas 23 years ago in Miami.
Several leading child welfare groups Tuesday urged an overhaul of federal laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach meant to encourage their adoption by white families.
Many Americans allowed themselves to fantasize about large-screen TVs, European vacations and other luxuries when they learned of the federal rebates they'd be getting this spring and early summer.
In a business that's attracting older car buffs and creating new fans with the young, Don Boeke is among the masters.
Well, it was bound to happen. The high-tech arms race has escalated once again. No, we're not talking about military weaponry.
Charles Nelson has paid about $30,000 in rent since moving into a spacious four-bedroom home in August. He was stunned when a real estate agent knocked on his door recently and said the home was in foreclosure.
At the dawn of the automobile age, gasoline was the up-and-coming "alternative fuel" -- vying with electric batteries and steam power.
Abbie Turiansky will spend four hours every Saturday for the next six months digging, planting, fertilizing and watering. But she won't be gardening in her back yard. She'll be working at a farm in rural Maryland, in exchange for a weekly parcel of produce at no monetary cost to her.
At The Wine Rack, where sales from the $10-and-under shelves are booming, Jocelyn Vorbach says aloud what most of her customers won't: Friendships now have price tags, and dinner guests are gauged.
For the sake of argument, imagine a world without conflict. That's the full-time job for members of a relatively new field called peace psychology who focus on problems like the genocide in Darfur, hatred in the Middle East, gang warfare in our cities, and rape everywhere.
With soaring gas prices and travel costs, the cheapest route to whisk yourself away this summer is through a good book. Ten top-selling authors share their favorite lazy-summer-day reads.
Before it became a national holiday, Memorial Day was a springtime holiday observed under many different titles, but all shared the same intent: to honor the brave people who died in battle by cleaning and decorating their grave sites.
Jorge Fernandez strolls across the used-car parking lot littered with dozens upon dozens of sport utility vehicles the size of small tugboats.
Not long after Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Kirven was killed in an insurgent ambush in Afghanistan on Mother's Day in 2005, his family was contacted by a stranger.
We've seen it many times before in movies, TV, and even in real life. A driver reaches over to open his door and the handle falls off in his hand.
A few years ago, drums of used french fry grease were only of interest to a small network of underground biofuel brewers, who would use the slimy oil to power their souped-up antique Mercedes.
If you don't eat, sleep and breathe cars, or devour car magazines in minute detail, there's a good chance you don't know all the technological terms that pop up in the media, new car advertising and literature.
Hamburgers and hot dogs? Check. Lighter fluid? Check. Beer? Check. More money?
Despite the economic downturn, a Lower Manhattan restaurant is now offering a $175 (euro112) hamburger.
Hospitals make the healer nervous, and before her lies a long institutional hallway. But she pushes forward -- like she always does -- because she has to. The man who needs her help is waiting.
Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.
Susan B. Anthony once said, "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." A woman on a bicycle, the equal rights champion observed, presents "the picture of free and untrammeled womanhood."
Slurping and burping at the dinner table is OK. Always use both hands to present somebody a business card. And as for those public toilets (or lack thereof), make sure you bring your own tissue.
Dwyane Wade sat in the first pew Sunday afternoon, looked at his mother, and simply couldn't hide his emotions.
Some things should never be said. Here are some tips on how to avoid putting your foot in your mouth -- and what to use instead.
When it comes to comfort, Kirk Christie's cows have it all -- a new barn, a flat-screen television and waterbeds.
It's a familiar scenario. You're on your way to work, maybe running 10 minutes late, and you're trying to make up for lost time.
Americans facing rising gasoline and diesel prices are cycling about, saddling up, singing out and, sometimes, resorting to violent symbolism.
A South Carolina grandmother has become a sensation among stressed-out U.S. military men and women around the globe by sending the most incongruous of gifts: pliable, google-eye dolls.
New motorcycles usually come with a pretty decent set of basic tools with which you can handle almost any minor breakdown -- and even a few not-so-minor ones.
The dossier spills over into two drawers of files full of hand-scribbled notes, maps marked with sharp black dots -- and snapshots of a shadowy figure, scattering bird seed.
Even though he's only 37 and in good health, Nathan Davis has already made out his will. In it, he bequeaths money to the University of Alabama athletic department and his ashes to Bryant-Denny Stadium.
It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman -- she's pregnant with her 18th child.
Some moms may not be getting both chocolates and a bouquet for Mother's Day this year as consumers watch their spending. Even businesses that traditionally benefit from the holiday, like florists and restaurants, are offering special offers and products.
In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."
In the current desperate real estate market, it's important to do everything you can to make your house attractive to prospective buyers.
President Bush stuck out his right elbow Thursday, jokingly demonstrating how he'll escort his daughter down the aisle at her wedding this weekend.
They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all; shop at local stores, if they shop at all; and pay off their credit cards every month, if they use them at all.
The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly when that was.
Of course no one likes getting a speeding ticket, and who hasn't cried out, "You gotta be kidding me!" upon learning that a heavy foot just lightened your wallet by $150 or $200?
A Pennsylvania couple who ended up spending their wedding night in jail say they were drunk and joking around when they inadvertently started a fight with hotel guests.
In a repair shop packed with Cadillacs -- the classic kind with fins, whitewall tires, curvy chrome bumpers and V-8 engines that get miles per gallon you can count on your fingers -- Elsa Nicodemus showed off a favorite.
Talk about hush-hush wedding planning. First daughter Jenna Bush was the last in the family to know she was getting married.
Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.
Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.
I was born and raised in Kentucky, a background that usually doesn't offer much in the way of conversation fodder.
For years people have asked me this question quite frequently ... what kind of shop should I use for automotive repairs, a dealership or an independent shop?
People who like to drive rarely enjoy being driven and are often tempted to second-guess the driving of others. Usually, it's not a good idea.
From getting hitched to saving the environment, here's proof you can still be a busybody long after you kick the bucket.
There is an old adage which goes something like this: "The cheap man always pays more in the long run."
The stock market hasn't been kind to investors in recent months, and that could be taking a toll on the Section 529 college savings accounts that many parents have set up for their kids. But families need to think carefully before tinkering too much with these tax-favored plans.
I spent the weekend in Miami Beach, not just for the sun and surf -- or the mojitos -- but for InStyle's fourth annual Inside InStyle event.
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