Kelly Haramis

The holiday season usually evokes a feeling of happiness, nostalgia and tradition. When you've lost a loved one, the holidays just don't seem the same. Traditions--like attending a production of...

Hanukkah begins next weekend, but with eights nights of gift-giving, you might not be finished with your shopping--yet. And Kanye West's "Gold Digger" is as good as gelt for Sarah...

Your family is visiting for the holidays--and you're cooking the main holiday meal. You want to impress them, but you also don't want to be too exhausted to open presents....

Although National Adoption Month is coming to a close, my journey is just beginning. Last March, my husband and I started the process to adopt a Chinese baby girl. For...

A clean house is tough to maintain with everyday stress and a long commute to work. Add the coming holidays and the impending visits from your out-of-town relatives, and there's...

Instead of ordering that complicated coffee concoction, just point to your shirt. That's right, the next time you visit your favorite java hut, you may want to try wearing your...

Psychic Mel Doerr of Mt. Prospect says everybody has "intuition and ESP to varying degrees," adding "some have it more strongly than others." Doerr, a teacher at Infinity Foundation in...

Steve Dahlke of Rosemont has been a professional pumpkin carver for 15 years. Dahlke says it takes about 20 minutes to carve a pumpkin with a pattern and two hours...

Are you an aspiring actor or actress waiting to get your foot in the door? Hollywood casting director Regina Prokop, a Chicago native, says the first step is to be...

Women have men beat when it comes to worrying--and that's part of the problem. "Girls are socialized to be less assertive and independent than boys," says Holly Hazlett-Stevens in "Women...