Chris McNamara

ScreamFree Parenting The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool By Hal Edward Runkel (Broadway Books, $21.95) Are you a parent who feels overstretched, overcommitted, underprepared and...

Numbers are at the root of many marital arguments -- bank balance, pounds gained since the wedding, the 16 rum-and-Cokes you had at Grandpa's wake. My wife and I are...

ASSUMING YOU WERE EDUCATED at some level, your heart likely sank each summer when you first spotted ads for back-to-school sales. We still remember those ads blindsiding us each year,...

Mayday! Asking for Help in Times of Need By M. Nora Klaver (Berrett-Koehler,$15.95 paper) The Chicago author believes our nation has gone overboard with its celebration of independence. Here is...

At a Lincoln Park taqueria, Tim Brown orders two football-sized pork burritos ... and a Diet Coke. "Got to keep this figure" he chuckles. His figure is surprisingly fit, considering...

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know By Meg Meeker, MD (Random House, $14.95 paper) The most important person in a young woman's life is her father,...

The team from Georgia won the Little League World Series a week ago with players bearing the first names Zane, Dalton, Micah, Kendall, Clint, Taylor, Payton, Keaton, Hunter and Hunt....

Like many Chicagoans, I get seasick at the thought of visiting a tourist-packed Navy Pier on a summer Saturday. But within the shadow of the pier's Ferris wheel are overlooked...

Some Eskimos will overturn their utensils to prevent them from becoming contaminated. Some Japanese will cover drinking wells, lest their water get poisoned. And locally, some Chicagoans will perform a...

Fritz Klein stands out among the thousands of guys in shorts and T-shirts at Millennium Park on a recent, steamy Saturday afternoon. That tends to happen when you're 6-foot-4, sporting...