When decorating our homes, we tend to consider things like beauty and comfort, the durability of pieces we might buy or the image they project. But how many of us stop to consider our energy bills? Energy-smart design goes way beyond choosing Energy Star-...

Q: I try not to take it personally but every time my dog sighs, I feel like she finds me boring. This isn't a phase - she's been sighing since puppyhood and she's now 2. Why do dogs sigh? A: We've all heard dogs sigh a deep, long exhalation through the nose,...

Q: The bug in the picture I sent you was found scurrying in the bedroom of my country house near the Sacramento River. It was not on an animal or human. It is frisky and lively. I go to my house there once a week and there is only room for us. We released it...

One summer day in 1982, Berkeley resident April Kutger took her 11-year-old son, Joe, to pick out a pound hound. She knew that Joe had a special affinity with animals and would help her find the perfect dog, which he did. And then some. There weren't always...

In the documentary “Four Seasons Lodge,” a group of Holocaust survivors spend their 26th summer at a Catskills bungalow colony.