Barbara B. Buchholz

If there are books devoted to salads, country desserts, mustards, lemons and even sweet onions and sour cherries, it should not be surprising that volumes focus on picnicking and its...

If you've ever seen a great scarf, but it came in the wrong colors or if you've had an outfit that desperately needed a scarf, but you couldn't find one...

What`s an environmental inspection like? Not too unlike a physician paying an old-fashioned house call. On a recent morning, Lake Zurich inspector John W. Cox arrived at a pre-World War...

Before you downsize or make any other changes in your housing situation, you need to think twice about some small and not-so-small charges that can take bites out of any...

While real estate brokers and homeowners continue to debate the pros and cons of Sunday open houses, most agree that midweek open houses for brokers from different firms are crucial...