Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Keith Eveland, of Rye, grew up a nearsighted farm boy, dairy to be exact, and nearsighted as in can't see distances. Both those facts contribute to his taking up the pencil and eventually the brush ...

It’s hard to call François Halard: A Visual Diary ($95, Rizzoli) a book. Yes, it has pages and a spine, but its contents are not typed words. It’s truly a visual diary, as its title declares, of the ...

Buried within the haunting story of Dracula, author Mina Murray offers this gem: "Journaling is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time". A lot of folks wished they kept a diary, ...