Growing up Jewish, I've never had a Christmas tree in my house. When my wife and I had kids, a tree seemed like more trouble than it was worth. This year, to the delight of my children, we have our ...

Every year, my dad would pick out the family Christmas tree at a nearby farm. After he had strokes, we figured out a way to continue to include him in the tradition. We kept up this new version of our ...

As an Indigenous child soldier caught in El Salvador’s civil war, my father found safety in a deep, reciprocal relationship with nature. In her book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve been answering gardeners’ tree questions for 54 years. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the more interesting ones.

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Is it beginning to look a lot like Christmas? I grew up measuring Christmas by the tree. Cut-your-own, grocery-lot deals, even in my young adult years, Manhattan bodega carry-aways à la “When Harry ...

It was the nightmare before Christmas. A shocked woman brought new meaning to “Christmas prayers” after a biblical plague of praying mantises infested her holiday pine ahead of the yuletide, as seen ...

For my entire life, I've always known that a certain family member of mine (okay fine, my grandad) had a... shady past. And like all older folk from the east end of London, stories of him rubbing ...

There are countless holiday traditions we anticipate each year, but one that many don't look forward to is setting up the Christmas lights. As neat as they can look, untangling and positioning them on ...

Can your neighbor cut down your tree without asking? Arbor Day has NJ homeowners questioning what the law really allows.

I recall feeling embarrassed when my son asked me about my father's side of the family for a social studies project when he was in 6th grade. I didn't know much about my dad's side of the family, ...