Parent explains why her family skips Santa traditions, focusing on gratitude and reducing holiday stress while creating ...

Merry Christmas. In the midst of this commercialized season of spending, I invite you to join me in spending time today and ...

Volunteering with children can build confidence and teach social and problem-solving skills. It also provides unique ways for ...

OAPs Wendy and Larry like their Christmas Day to go with an extra bang. Lying on their sun loungers in the buff as their ...

When my family emigrated to Malmö, I wanted to stick to our traditions, but my husband was keen to embrace the local customs. Why were we butting heads?

From snow-dusted villages to festive winter festivals, these New England destinations offer charm, history and seasonal magic ...

Just a few years ago, I'd be begging for a bit of time out on Christmas Day - now I've got to lock them in the kitchen to get their attention ...

Why do I do it? Because these are the people that cook your food in restaurants, that drive your taxis, that take care of your grandparents if they’re in a nursing home, that wash your car, cut your ...

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England, though, were jerks. Old English medical texts attributed various diseases to elves. If you felt a sharp, unexplained pain, it was probably the result of an “ elfshot ”—an ...

Christmas here is nothing near as magical as a Christmas in CDA. For eight years, I was part of making the magic come alive on the Lake Coeur d'Alene cruise boats, first as a dock elf, then later as a ...

And, as Father Time painfully knows, for anyone on the shorter end of their vacation on the old third-rock, the passage of ...