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I’m a passionate reader, and independent bookstores attract me like a bee to a flower. If I happen to see one, I’m sorely tempted to stop in, wander around, check out the staff recommendations and often walk out the door with two or three books under my arm. Here’s the …

Photo by Andriy Blokhin / Shutterstock.com There are many good reasons to get a Costco membership. Cheap gas is one of them. But if you are not persuaded to plunk down the membership fee — which is expected to increase soon — there is another overlooked way to get Costco …

Wondering why your feed is filled with tips on how to declutter your space? Clean mildew out of the showers. Swap your regular detergent for a better-for-the-environment one? It’s National Cleaning Week, or, as one of my clients put it, national “feeling bad because my house is a mess and …

Amid the chatter of travel’s long-awaited rebound one year into the pandemic, many families with children feel largely left out of the conversation. Nearly every summer, Ada Ayala, a teacher, and her husband, Oscar Cesar Pleguezeulos, travel with their children to visit Mr. Cesar Pleguezeulos’s parents in Spain. But this …

It’s not a secret that the cost of college is incredibly high. U.S. News and World Report slices up the cost of college in several ways, pointing out that in-state tuition and fees alone average more than $ 11,000 per year for a four-year public university. Much of that is …

With the average American household cable bill hovering above $ 200 a month and the abundance of streaming alternatives to cable, many people are making the choice to cut out cable and satellite service and switch to solely over-the-air and streaming services. The best part is that you don’t have …

In a bid to resume international business meetings in Singapore amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Connect@Changi was launched today (Feb 18) to allow business travelers to meet at a designated facility at the Singapore Expo. They would not need to undergo prior quarantining, but are required to remain within the facilities …

“Right now. Right now feels like every other minute of the day, of the week, of the month. Right now feels like forever. … Right now feels so long and without any end in sight, without a change.” — Teacher and mother of four, in her 30s, from Massachusetts. Those …

This is a story about how, recently, an opportunity to bathe presented itself to me. I love to bathe. I don’t do it very often because the bath at my apartment is just the bottom half of the shower, and something about the duality of soaking where I usually wash …