I recently moved away from the progressive playground of Portland, Oregon, which among other things, is a city at the center of the "creative repurposing" trend. Strolling through any of the many ...

As the nation, and especially Nairobi, plunged into a sudden state of mourning, grief-stricken Raila Odinga supporters ...

I have been getting numerous questions about all the ends of the branches of trees lying all around yards and county roads. The limbs look like they have been cut off with a sharp pocket knife. This ...

Pussywillow is an odd cut flower. It is neither fragrant nor very colorful. It just gets cut and brought into the home because the distinctively fuzzy catkins are so interesting. They are appealing ...

Kebabs on the barbecue, the ultimate quick supper, offer an endless combination of ingredients, beginning with morsels of meat and poultry, fish, veggies, and fruits. But wooden skewers come off the ...

1. Make sure your knife is sharp. 2. Your knife must be really sharp! 3. Don t try carving with a knife that isn t sharp ... You get the point. For more than 30 years, the good-humored Lubkemann, who ...

Yard cleanup after a storm can yield a lot of debris, including fallen sticks and branches. But you don't need to toss everything you collect —you can put those sticks and twigs to good use right back ...