As the author of "The Green Gardener's Guide," I've written the book on essential ways to green your garden while protecting the planet.

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Parenting is an incredibly rewarding albeit frequently challenging experience. Unfortunately issues from 'over-parenting' — where parents dominate their children's life with the meddling often extending into adolescence and continuing until college entry — transcend ge …

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ROALD GUNDERSEN, an architect who may revolutionize the building industry, shinnied up a slender white ash near his house here on a recent afternoon, hoisting himself higher and higher until the limber trunk began to bend slowly toward the forest floor...

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Husband, Boy Friend, Live in Lover. Does Your Man Help With the Housework?

I just finished washing the breakfast dishes and I'm sitting down with my pruned fingers to write this article. As I was doing the dishes and looking out the window at the leaves falling I began to wonder if I'm the only man on the Vine who helps with the house work.

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A Thanksgiving cooking guide from L.A. Times.

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For physician Jeffrey Hertzberg and baker Zoe Francois, the journey to no-knead bread began innocently enough.

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I do my best to save money wherever I can, but I have to admit, recently I have had a bit of a tough time making ends meet. My husband has stopped paying child support which has made things difficult.

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How to prevent your wife from cheating

Most women cheat through neglect, boredom and being taken for granted. Many people forget a vital factor when they get into a relationship: that human beings are constantly evolving and developing different aspirations, needs and expectations.

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It's that time of the year...hold onto your willpower!

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Four years after the levee failures, New Orleans is seeing an unexpected boom in architectural experimentation. Small, independent developers are succeeding in getting houses built where the government has failed.

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From October 31st through November 2nd, a number of festivals, holidays and solemnities take place, all loosely related and revolving around remembrance of the dead.

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Blame the Government for Traitorous Appliances

Have you ever noticed how appliances wait until you get just a little money ahead—not much, say $200—and then they break or fail to the tune of at least $250?

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Almost all of us have had the frustrating experience of trying to undo a stuck zipper. Whether the teeth have separated, or a piece of fabric is caught in them, it can be quite a challenge to solve the problem.

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After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward will never be the same again – and Brad Pitt is determined to make that a good thing.

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In his nursery, plant man Paul Bonine found himself inexplicably drawn to black – black leaves, black stems, black flowers. These anomalies of nature are living contradictions.

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Controlling Lady Bugs in Your Home

There are several kinds of Lady Beetles, or Lady Bugs, and most species of Lady Bugs are considered to be beneficial, because they eat aphids, scale insects, caterpillars, and other insect larvae.

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The record for giant pumpkins was broken this month with one farmer growing a hefty gourd that weighed more than the average cow.

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When Jerry LeBourdais learned that big agribusiness couldn't handle the Cariboo potato, he knew he'd found a variety that he wanted to support. The name didn't hurt either.

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Popular climbing vegetables to grow.

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I found this laugh out loud food essay in the New York Times magazine.

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Which A-list couple renews vows each year at their beach house? Which famous designer felt as if she was "moving in with the Addams family"? InStyle.com profiles the envy-inducing homes of Jessica Alba, Heidi Klum, Miley Cyrus and more.

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The Most Perfect Food

It may be argued that pizza is the most perfect food. Some say soup. For nutritional value, many argue it is salad. For myself, I say that nothing can make me wax poetic like the Mac Daddy of all foods - the Sandwich!

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Two weeks ago, a bankruptcy court in suburban New York did the unthinkable: It waived a homeowner's mortgage debt after the bank trying to foreclose on the home, couldn't submit any proof it had a claim on the property.

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Not long ago I received an e-mail from a reader requesting collard green recipes. I was happy to accommodate, especially since I've not worked much with collard greens. I once lived in Texas, where collards are cooked for hours with ham hocks.

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ymca

My local Y is the largest in the USA...no kidding.... The work out machines have a computer at each one that keeps tract of your workout.

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