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Buy Nothing Day

While turkey and cranberry gelatin are still digesting from Thanksgiving, Black Friday hits with a vengeance, filling shopping malls and department stores with people whose appetites have moved quickly from food to sales. But there is an alternative to braving the malls on Black Friday, and it is as simple as staying at home and

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Eight fun fall date ideas

Have you carved all your pumpkins? Been on a hay ride and through a corn maze? Walked through enough haunted houses? Are you left looking for a way to combine the beautiful fall weather with a creative, inexpensive date idea? As the weather becomes cooler and the leaves turn the colors of the harvest, couples

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Life on a turkey farm

Turkey Day has a whole new meaning if you are the one supplying the turkeys. Just ask sophomore Lauren Pounds, whose family has run a turkey farm near Pittsburgh, Pa., since 1935. For Pounds, Thanksgiving means two weeks of butchering (or “processing”), plucking, singeing, bagging and boxing 11,000-12,000 turkeys. She said the farm, which also

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