Lifestyles — Daily Living

• How to Photograph Holiday Lights

  ‘Tis the season to be jolly!” All winter holiday celebrations involve lights. This is the season of lights – from Christmas trees to Hanukkah candles to decorative house lighting. Lights…lights…lights to cheer up the long dark nights of winter. According to Chuck DeLaney, Dean of the New York Institute of Photography (NYI), the world’s largest photography school, your pictures can capture the magic of this lighting if you apply just two simple professional “tricks”.

• 7 Gift Ideas for your Caregiver

  The Holiday Season is the ideal time to express your gratitude to your child-care provider. Sharing your family’s appreciation for all they "receive" throughout the year is very important. Whether you have a full-time nanny, a day-care provider, or a teenage babysitter, there are several thoughtful gifts that can be individualized to your special caregiver.

• 20 Ways One Person Can Change the World for Under $50 a Month

  How can one person change the world? If not the entire worldthen one person’s world? By taking positive action! Look around your community! There are needs every dayon every block.

• 10 Easy Christmas Wedding Favor Ideas

  Having a wedding during the Christmas season brings many possible Christmas wedding favors to mind. Here are 10 favor ideas to help you get started.

• How To Accomplish a Summer Goal

  Do you have a goal for this summer? Is there something you want to accomplish? Here’s how to go about it the organized way…

• A Season Of Hope – And Battle

  For years, psychologists, educators and church leaders have warned about subversive and decadent influences on children in our society—the Internet, pornographic literature and films, violent video games, raunchy TV, and so on. It’s an old story: the more sexually perverted the entertainment, the more teenagers watch it, and the higher the ratings and the profits.

• The Top 5 Photo Tips For Scrapbookers

  By putting just a little more thought into your photos before you snap away, you can capture those special moments the way they were meant to be captured

• Chasing Away the Holiday Blues

  Once again we find ourselves in the midst of the holiday season. Holidays are meant to bring joy and celebration but sometimes bring sadness and despair. Holidays can be difficult times, and this may be especially true this year because of our ongoing national crisis.