According to George Orwell, “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some …

There’s a legend in my family that my grandmother found the tattoo my grandfather had gotten in the Navy so repugnant she insisted he wear a long-sleeved shirt at the dinner table even in July.

The thing I love about writing this column is that I learn something every time I hear a person’s story. This week when I set out to write about Elizabeth Young, owner and operator of Commonplace …

Can a person be both a carpenter and a tree hugger? This describes Colin Thompson perfectly. A furniture maker, or more accurately, an artist whose medium is wood, Colin has pledged never to fell a …

There were 37,529 juvenile offenders held in residential treatment facilities in 2018 according to the Department of Justice. These children must be educated, not only because it’s the law, but …

According to activist and author Bea Johnson, the five concepts of “zero waste” are almost poetic: “Refuse what you do not need; reduce what you do need; reuse what you consume; recycle what …

Looking back, what might have seemed like a setback to Karen and Geoff Caldwell would ultimately lead to the creation of Sunflower Glass Studio, the business on Sergeantsville Road in Stockton they …

In this season of Halloween, my favorite holiday (No gifts to buy. No awkward family confrontations about life choices), when the boundary between this world and the next becomes most permeable, it seems only fitting to write about a psychic.

A call came in to the Lower Makefield Township Police Department. In a panicked voice, an elderly woman reported a squirrel was running loose in her house. But removing wildlife on private property …

There is nothing more important in life than food. Oh, I know what you’re saying. Love is more important. But you can’t love, or create beauty or do good in the world if you haven’t eaten. And that’s where Stephen and Nicolas Servis come in.

“By night, I’m a professional jazz musician. Even later at night, I investigate the paranormal,” is the way Eric Mintel introduces himself on his popular show “Eric Mintel …

Gray Auld, owner of Saving Grace Grooming, knew what they wanted to do for a living almost from the beginning. “Growing up I worked for my parents’ laminating company during the summers, but dog grooming was actually my first real job,” Gray said.

Adi Strigl saw the toll the COVID-19 lockdown was taking on her three children. They couldn’t go to school. They couldn’t see their friends. None of the activities they normally enjoyed were …

“If you build it, they will come,” according to “Field of Dreams,” the much-loved 1989 movie that is Tom Schnabel’s favorite. That’s why he chose it last summer for Movie Night at Schnabels’ Woods in Quakertown.

I don’t think many people exist who haven’t at one time said to themselves “Someday I’m going to chuck it all and become an innkeeper.” Sometimes this is the result of bingeing episodes of …