Friendship necklaces have evolved beyond the connected heart charms of yore to include modern (grown-up) options. Friendship necklaces might hark back to simpler days spent in face masks at slumber ...

CORCORAN, Minn. — If friendship had a sound, it could be the footsteps and wheels on one Corcoran driveway. "It's just fun. I have the time; I have the ability to do this." Twice a week, Pat Erickson ...

Some writers blaze onto the scene with a dazzling first book. Others build their writing career brick by brick — or “bird by bird,” as Annie Lamott put it so brightly in her best-selling book. Former ...

Footbindingand a secret language shape the shocking, restrictive world ofSnow Flower and the Secret Fan,a new film opening here Friday. Footbinding began in wealthy Chinese households more than 1,000 ...

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." ―Iris Murdoch "Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all ...