My honeymoon began with a park ranger demonstrating how to use anti-bear spray. My new wife mocked me with her eyes as I paid unflinching attention to how long to wait before unleashing the potent pepper spray-like cloud at my …

Forget the Maldives – my perilous honeymoon avoiding bears and avalanches in the Canadian Rockies Read more »

This required packing about 15 boxes worth of items and knick-knacks into our attic. I shot photos of each box as I loaded it, then drew a number with a big Sharpie on each of them, 1 through 15, and took a …

This Brilliantly Simple Packing Trick Will Radically Improve Your Next Trip. (You’ll Kick Yourself For Not Thinking of This Before) Read more »

Children play in a fountain near Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on July 24. The high temperature was 95 degrees. In late July, Europe experienced a historic heat wave. Much of Europe baked in temperatures that were 20 degrees or more above …

Photo journal: A trip through Europe as temperatures soared toward record highs Read more »

DEAR ABBY: My 13-year-old son plays on a local travel sports team. Many of his teammates could be considered lower class or lower middle class. We live in a luxurious home. We don’t flaunt it, and we’re not snobbish. All …

Dear Abby: Should I invite son’s lower-class friends to our upper-class home? – Chicago Sun Read more »