When Steve Reynolds helped his mother “whip up eggs and season flour for breading” as a kid when she was practicing some recipes for a new job as cook, he had no idea he would one day support a family with his culinary skills. “If I got out of school early, she would take me to work ...

We are nearing the end of a 15-day cruise through the Panama Canal, which began in Miami, Florida. We have stopped in Santa Marta and Cartagena, Colombia and Manta, Ecuador on our way to visit my husband’s cousin in Cuenca, Ecuador. The port of Salaverry was the first of two stops in ...

When Nancy Hawley lost her job at the Chautauqua County Airport, where she had worked for many years, she re-opened The Gift Exchange, the business she had run for three years while working seven days per week at the airport. After being shuttered for a year and a half, she brought the shop ...

To reduce waste and avoid unnecessary plastic bottles and chemicals — and to save money — many people are opting to make cleaning products from scratch at home. You can find an abundance of recipes for household cleaning products online, along with reusable glass spray bottles designed to ...

I have featured people of all ages over the last 21 years and today I revisit a few of them, from a preteen to some senior citizens. I begin with Johnathan Schulz who was just 12-years old when he appeared on this page on May 19, 2012. I was impressed with his work ethic and the fact that ...

This was the day we had been waiting for, the day we would pass through the Panama Canal on our way to visit my husband’s cousin in Ecuador. Fred, my spouse, had been up and down throughout the early morning hours of the sixth day of our cruise, in anticipation of our 5 a.m. arrival to the ...