Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Why Eye Health Is an Investment Worth Making
Published on 11/09/2026We spend a remarkable amount of time looking at screens. We check our phones before getting out of bed, stare at computers throughout the workday, scroll through social media during lunch, and settle down in front of the television at night.
The Housing Makeover: When Improving a Neighborhood Prices Everyone Out
Published on 10/29/2026Then something funny happens. The neighborhood gets nicer, investors notice, property values start climbing, rents follow, and the people who spent years living through potholes, boarded-up storefronts, and questionable streetlights discover that the reward for surviving the old neighborhood may be getting priced out of the new one.
Halloween 2026: Apparently, Being Scared Is a $13.5 Billion Business
Published on 10/19/2026Halloween used to be simple. You cut a face into a pumpkin, bought enough candy to survive a small siege, and hoped the kid dressed as a vampire did not recognize you from last year when you handed out raisins.
A New Relationship Should Feel... New
Published on 10/09/2026Pouring into a new relationship means making room for the other person in your life.
So Columbus Wasn’t the First European in America?
Published on 10/07/2026Friday is Leif Erikson Day, which means America briefly remembers that a Norse sailor may have reached this continent about five centuries before Columbus, then goes back to arguing about a Monday holiday.
Gutter Therapy and Other October Rites of Passage
Published on 10/06/2026Clogged gutters dump water against the foundation, which is how a $0 Saturday becomes a basement with a new indoor creek.
What Teachers Wish Parents Knew, How Teaching Changed After AI
Published on 10/05/2026What teachers wish parents knew has not changed as much as the software has. Kids still forget their lunch, still announce they are “done with school forever” on a Tuesday, and still learn best when an adult at home treats homework like a team sport instead of a surprise audit.
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month: The Scams AI Just Made Much Harder to Spot
Published on 10/02/2026The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center gave AI its own line in the 2025 crime report for the first time: 22,364 complaints and about $893 million in reported losses.
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Why Everyone Is Watching Podcasts Now, Not Just Listening
Published on 10/01/2026Podcasts used to be the thing you put in your ears so you could ignore the rest of your life with a clear conscience. Dishes, commute, treadmill, that one stretch of highway where the radio gives up. The voice in your headphones was company, not a commitment.
When Summer Finally Taps Out and Fall Walks In Like It Owns the Place
Published on 09/25/2026What we now call “fall” used to be “harvest” in older English, then “the fall of the leaf,” which is still the most honest job description a season ever had.
How to Survive Dating (or Being Related to) Someone Who Treats Fantasy Football Like a Second Job
Published on 09/21/2026Multiple teams make everything worse. One team is a personality quirk. Three teams is a scheduling conflict with reality.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Published on 09/15/2026The origins of Hispanic Heritage Month date back to 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law establishing Hispanic Heritage Week.