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Just 4 ingredients make great soup

In the farm-to-table food world of today, we often praise the cook who keeps recipes simple, letting the ingredients speak for themselves. Yet once I get started in the kitchen, sometimes I ...

Food fight? Congress considers school meal standards

WASHINGTON – Add another item to lawmakers’ busy fall agenda: Congress must decide whether to do battle again with first lady Michelle Obama over school lunches with more whole grains and le...

The fruits of fall

Local farmers overcome challenges to deliver delectable autumn produce

Why I don't monitor my kids' texts anymore

Recently, I was part of a panel discussion about kids and technology. A mom in the audience shared a situation she’d encountered with her son. He is new to texting, and as the texts came thr...

My friend dared me to delete my dating apps. Challenge accepted!

While at an outdoor beer garden last Friday night, my friend Abby dared me to delete the dating apps from my phone. You can meet people in person, she reminded me. Just look around: There ar...

I've been dating my boyfriend since high school, but I'm not sure we should marry

Q: I am a college senior who has had the same boyfriend since high school. He is an amazing guy, but after years of thinking he was someone I wanted to be with for life, I am rethinking thin...

If women 'still can't have it all,' here's how dads can help everyone have more

When Anne-Marie Slaughter first gained attention in the wider world three years ago, not for her work at the State Department, but rather, for being pretty blunt about the fact that women st...

What happened to kids addressing adults by their last names?

Special to The Washington Post I was 13 when I thought it would be fun to call my eighth grade teacher by her first name. More out of boredom than disrespect, my normally good jud...

From abortion to gay marriage: Where the pope stands

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is expected to raise issues ranging from climate change to income inequality when he visits Cuba and the United States from Saturday to Sept. 27. Franc...

Priest’s Lego Vatican inspires awe

Sculpture took 500,000 bricks and ‘patience’

Nine ways being a mom makes me a better entrepreneur

Starting a high-tech startup with two children in diapers probably sounds like a bad idea. It’s never easy to balance a business with raising children, yet alone when they are 1 and 3 years ...

Trichy parenting: How I learned to try to see the whole picture that is my daughter

Trichotillomania. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, now does it? When my daughter first started pulling, she was 9 and it was like a tornado of energy had ripped though her....