This year's holiday shopping reports suggest that competitive bargain-hunting is the dominant trend among families who have spent the year making only purchases of necessity. More...
Gift cards will be the most requested gift this year, with nearly 55 percent of consumers reporting they would like to receive a gift card this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. More...
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and Kwanzaa – no matter what you’re celebrating, pet owners need to remember to keep their pets safe and healthy for the holidays. More...
Farmer/lecturer Joel Salatin champions “moral farming” as a better way to raise food
By David Grant THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Joel Salatin, self-professed owner of that lengthy honorific, has a personality bigger than the Grain Belt and a genius for farming that has made him a glib, brilliant prophet to a growing movement of backto nature farmers from California to Swoope, More...
Known as hunters, outdoor cats become the prey
By Mark Clayton THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Cat lover Lisa Harris used to let her seven felines roam outdoors – until she saw a coyote waltzing across her front yard. Since then, Dr. Harris, a wildlife biologist who lives in Tucson, Ariz., has kept her cats indoors 24/7. More...