Lifestyle

Garden revival

Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:13 Melinda Myers

Spring floods, summer droughts and temperature extremes take their toll on gardens and the gardeners who tend them. Help your gardens recover from the crazy temperature and moisture extremes that seem to occur each year.

Maximize your harvest this season despite limited time, space and energy

Wednesday, 15 May 2013 12:42 Melinda Myers, gardening expert

Increase your garden's productivity even when space, time and energy are limited. Just follow these six simple planting, maintenance and harvesting techniques for a more bountiful harvest.

'Mama, what would I do without you?'

Tuesday, 07 May 2013 15:12 Hazel Trice Edney and Akua Aboagye

America celebrates Mother's Day this Sunday

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - As young as 5 years old, Twan Woods would wake up at night and hear his mother having a seizure. He would know exactly what to do. He would run into her bedroom, hold her, put a cold rag in her mouth, comfort her and keep her from falling until it was over, he recalls.

"My Mom, she's a sick lady. She's like, handicapped, she's been like that all her life," said the 37-year-old who grew up in Ward 8, a crime-ridden section of South East Washington, D.C.

How to NOT dislike your mother?

Tuesday, 07 May 2013 13:00

As Mother's Day comes closer, some children and mothers may feel the dread of this day – as their experience of it has had been awkward and stressful.

Roger Mooking returns with even more heat in new season of 'Man Fire Food'

Monday, 06 May 2013 13:34

Chef Roger Mooking, returns to the Cooking Channel for the second season of "Man Fire Food," premiering Monday, June 3 at 8:30 p.m.

Raising generations who believe entitlements is the way of life

Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:04

A survey released last year called the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, revealed that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and having the drive to succeed, even though their test scores in key skills and time spent studying are decreasing.

Lawn renewal and renovation tips to create a perfect lawn this season

Wednesday, 24 April 2013 13:39 Melinda Myers

The extreme heat and drought of 2012 was hard on lawns and gardens. "Many gardeners are facing a blank slate of bare soil, masses of dead patches that were once lawn or a bit of grass interspersed in a sea of weeds," says gardening expert Melinda Myers.