Topic “Manage Your Life”

By Sarah Welch and Alicia Rockmore (getbuttonedup.com)

Ahhh, September. There’s nothing like the return of “normal schedules” to overwhelm even the most well-intentioned cooks come 5 p.m.

Already-busy families face an onslaught of extracurricular activities and workers of all stripes lose those precious extra “summer hours” that make the days seem much longer. Unfortunately, when you’re...

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz (Chicago Tribune/MCT)

On May 22, 2009, a little less than three years into his marriage, Michael Goodwin addressed a letter to his not-yet-conceived child, explaining why he wasn’t ready for fatherhood.

“Your mother and I are still pretty young, and there are times right now where we have trouble taking care of just ourselves,” wrote Goodwin, who was 23 at...

By Monica Eng (Chicago Tribune/MCT)

If you plan to read Barry Estabrook’s “Tomatoland,” a good time is now, while juicy, fragrant, local, vine-ripened tomatoes are in abundance.

Reading this stinging indictment of industrial tomato production any other time may leave you unable to enjoy a BLT for several months. And it’s not just because winter tomatoes taste so bad; the...

By Amy K. Stewart (Standard-Examiner correspondent)

OGDEN — Susan Matt ordered a ginger-lemon iced tea and settled into a metal chair on a deck that smelled of warm wood and sugary pastries at an East Bench neighborhood coffee shop — and began to explain why she would write a book called “Homesickness.”

Pointing northeast toward Ben Lomond peak, the Weber State University history...

By Food Network Kitchens (Scripps Howard News Service)

Eat foods that help you relax -- and no, we don’t mean pigging out on high-calorie junk food. While there isn’t a cure-all food to magically erase frustration, you can get some stress relief with a combo of exercising, eating small meals throughout the day and getting more of these fresh goodies.

1. Whole-Wheat Pretzels

Eating...