(AP) — Starting with brushing his teeth before 4 a.m., influencer Ashton Hall says he also swims, meditates, journals, rubs his face with banana peel, lifts weights, submerges his face in ice water and accomplishes much more every day before breakfast around 9:30. A video of his morning ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Allergy season can be miserable for tens of millions of Americans when trees, grass, and other pollens cause runny noses, itchy eyes, coughing and sneezing. Where you live, what you’re allergic to and your lifestyle can make a big difference when it comes to the severity of ...

The other day, my husband sent me a text with a link to a story about old food. Someone had found 25-year-old mayonnaise that looked like caramel. Not good. Later, I was reaching deep into my cupboards to see if any food had eluded us. Our cupboards came with the house and are not as ...

We tend to hang onto things in our family — all of us, except, perhaps, our son. If I give him things, I’ll later find out he sold the items. I recently offered him a chair — one we bought him when he was in college — from our basement. “If you bring me that chair, I will sell ...

“Just think, in a few months, this street will be covered with a canopy of green leaves,” my husband commented as we drove home. I was looking at a precarious nest perched on a high, brown, leafless branch. “That’s a daring squirrel to build a nest over a busy street,” I added. On ...

One of my students posed the question, “Why does tradition suggest that we should plant our seed potatoes on Good Friday?” Yes, my student stumped me and motivated me to research the origins of this advice. The answer lies in the global history of food crops. Native to the mountains of ...