During a recent holiday trip to Holland, in the Netherlands, Register & Bee photographer Traci White took some time to show that the ways in which people around the world celebrate winter weather is often similar, despite cultural differences. View photo gallery

The best thing to do for now is to keep it in the right place and give it some water from time to time to keep it healthy.

Losing weight is always a top pick for people at the beginning of the year

Which ones haven’t you tried?

Maggie gives her person, Donna Souza, “Hi Fives” following a meal of Blackwood’s all natural dog food.

It’s not every day you could see 31 paintings by Queena Stovall, Virginia’s Grandma Moses.

With so many distractions, you probably didn’t hear that using Facebook makes you a better employee, or that drinking wine can help you avoid lung cancer, or that doing tai chi makes life easier for asthmatics. (Unless you do it in a public park wearing something approximating pajamas, of course. Then you just look silly.)

If you’ve been slow to warm up to slow cookers, it probably wasn’t the incredible convenience that turned you off.

QUESTION: If I have been sick should I throw out my toothbrush

Museum envisioned in singer’s early home

DEAR HUNGRY: First off, it’s a good thing that you can’t do diets, because more often than not, they don’t work, at least in the long run. And I’m speaking from experience.

Attending President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in next month may be free, but the cost of being a part of the inaugural festivities can add up quickly.

The assistant pastor at Sacred Heart Catholic Church found his spiritual way there as “way leads upon way,” in the words of Robert Frost.

Celebrations take on new meaning with Obama’s success

While many might think it not a wise idea to open a new business in the middle of a recession, Shane and Heather Bagbey believe that it’s exactly what God wanted them to do. So, armed with faith and a little help from their friends, they have opened the New Earth Skateboard & Clothing Co. on Riverside Drive.

A visit to the home of L.P. and Katie Moss in Spring Garden is a step into a Christmas wonderland. At least 20 decorated trees adorn both the inside and the outside, the mantels above cheerily lit fires boast beautiful greenery and candles and the dining room table is set for Christmas guests — even the shed out back has a wreath on the door.

Doctors seeing an increase in patients with stress symptoms

Dexter Romweber had been misunderstood. In an interview a while back, the subject of the Stray Cats came up, and comparisons

I recently moved to Roanoke from Norcross, Ga. I got here in June and ever since I pulled up into the parking lot of my new place, I haven’t been able to breathe.

Beth Dunn is taking a scale break. Judi Moreo is shelving her Jenny Craig meals. And Thea Lobell is relaxing her fried food rule — at least for the time being.

The jolly old elf can count on mince pies and sherry in Britain, but in Denmark the food is left out for gnomes, not for Julmanden (Santa). In desperation in Belgium, St. Nick could always grab one of the carrots left out for his horse.

Justin Gwynn is home from living in Ghana for two years and while he is glad to be back with friends and family

Three huge boxes of toys and $520 in cash donations were picked up Tuesday at Thunder Road Harley-Davidson on Riverside Drive and are on their way to making Christmas a happy time for some disadvantaged children in the area.

We feel, if not feed, your pain. So this year, relish has cut its usual glib gift guide for the extraordinarily wealthy to focus on unusual gifts that are a bit more affordable.

Even “small” amounts of holiday food can cause illness

The girl from Texas didn’t bring a warm coat with her. But to hear Kimberly Bratton tell it, winter in Chicago isn’t as bad as people say.

In her ministry to breast cancer patients, breast cancer survivor Deborah Graham chooses to constantly revisit that defining and terrifying moment in 2004 when her doctor informed her that she had breast cancer.

December, 2008/January, 2009 Edition: Change Your life. Fill out our questionaire.

Hard times have you down this holiday season? Take a trip to the library for some inspiration from treasured stories of Christmas past.

Even though the flower may resemble a rose, the two flowers are not even in the same family.