Judy Hevrdejs

This is not your mama's fish-fork-and-thank-you-notes Emily Post. Not with the kicky--at times bleu--language tossed about by Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh, authors of "The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Grace...

What bugs you more in the summer? Sunburn and skeeter bites? Or bottles of sun and bug lotion that spill/explode/drip? Here's help battling both in a convenient form--not-so-sloppy wipes. -...

You're debating whether your cousin in Minnesota would prefer to have something from Mikasa or Makita for his wedding. With Home Depot, that home improvement wonderland, joining Sears, Target and...

Your alarm clock's a lemon. Your recently repaired roof just sprung a leak. And you've been spammed and spammed again. Get some relief--or, at least, a free booklet designed to...

"Make a personal statement of style. Forget what your well-meaning mother-in-law says you can or can't do. This is all about you." --Colin Cowie, 20-year veteran of the wedding planning...

Mother Nature was on hand the other day when several dozen green thumbs--attached to human volunteers--gathered at an Illinois Department of Transportation landscape yard on West Augusta Boulevard to prep...

The crowd was focused, intent on the challengers pitting their skills against the clock and 147 competitors. Sparks flew. Tension crackled. And there was sweat--lots of it. Not a wrestling...

I would have chalked up my missing shopping cart to a momentary mental lapse had it happened once. Or twice. But when it was purloined a third time at Whole...

You could sit at home and brood--or stew--about the season. Or you could push yourself out the front door and embrace the world of soul-warming stews served up at Chicagoland...

You expect lutefisk, that Scandinavian cod dish, to prompt reactions from yummy to yuck. You don't expect such responses to potato sausage. But bring it up, and you'll find people...