LOS ANGELES — Forget the smell of blood and all the shark fears we’ve internalized thanks to “Jaws” and “Shark Week.” Turns out, the first thing a shark notices about humans actually might be the unique sounds we make in the ocean.

And great white sharks — at least the ones in a sharky hot spot like Southern California— have ...Read more

The dramatic footage of a teenage lifeguard saving a child from punishing waves along the California coast has captured the attention of the nation, drawing praise from the shores of Santa Cruz all the way to the White House.

Video of the rescue at Seabright State Beach on Saturday, captured and shared by local photographer Scott Vander Dussen,...Read more

The summer plant trials across the country are always exciting, not only from the standpoint of new plants that will be making their debut but also the new recipes. There are always big crowds around the mixed container recipes. This year one of my favorites is called Sparkle Party.

Sparkle Party really creates a festive atmosphere. It's kind ...Read more

DENVER -- Jolee Harston feels the love every time she rolls into Phamaly Theatre Company, where actors gathered on a recent weekday to rehearse songs for the world premiere of “504: The Musical.”

As a disabled person who uses a wheelchair, that’s something she doesn’t take for granted.

“I hadn’t acted in a long time just due to my ...Read more

DENVER — When Heather Clifton was a child, she would stand at her grandmother’s bedside after dinners and parties and admire the matriarch’s wooden curio cabinet. One day, when she was 13 or 14, her grandmother told her to pick an item out for herself, so Clifton selected a shiny gold ring with a big blue stone — which she still wears ...Read more

It’s all fun and games until you have to run 10 miles. Alone. In 9,000 percent humidity. And the life lessons you were so proud of gleaning a couple weeks ago start to feel less like little pearls of wisdom and more like little pebbles in your shoe, vexing you more with each sweaty, exhausted step.

I’ll back up.

A few weeks ago I committed...Read more

Dear Anna,

I’m a 36-year-old guy who’s been single for a few years, and lately I’ve started wondering whether I actually like dating anymore — or whether I’m just doing it because it feels like I should and because that’s the dominant narrative, the thing I’ve been told to do. It’s not that I can’t get dates. I go on enough of...Read more

Shirley Jennett, a retired nurse, loves her spacious ranch-style house in Denver, with its big backyard and gazebo.

“I want to stay here,” she vowed. “And die here.”

She might pull that off. In relatively good health, Jennett still drives to lunch with friends, does her own housekeeping and grocery shopping, and plows through a book a ...Read more

EDINA, Minn. -- At first glance, Wooddale Avenue looks like any other suburban street.

It carries traffic between neighborhoods, schools, churches and parks. Visitors park along its curbs. Families cross it on foot.

For cyclists, however, Wooddale represents one of the last missing links in Edina’s bike network.

And after months of public ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Children lined up in the gymnasium at Holy Family School in the North Lawndale neighborhood Monday morning, eager to tear into milk cartons and grab breakfast before another day of summer camp.

Among them were cousins Calia Brown and Alonnah Muhammad, both age 11, who are preparing to enter sixth grade. Over bananas and waffle ...Read more

Ghosting — the abrupt disappearance of someone you were seeing or taking to — is jarring. It often comes out of nowhere, and it forces you to first wonder what happened to the other person before it sinks in that they did this intentionally. In short, ghosting is cowardly, avoiding a short, difficult conversation to spare yourself being ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Walking into a video game store is something Isaiah Chavez hopes he’ll always be able to do.

In a world where buying and installing new games are mere clicks away from the comfort of his couch, Chavez, 37, prefers to drive about 15 miles from his Largo, Florida, home to a local games retailer every time he makes a purchase. ...Read more

After school cellphone bans passed many statehouses with bipartisan support in recent legislative sessions, state lawmakers are turning to legislation governing how long students should spend looking at screens.

This year, four states passed laws restricting or regulating screen time for students from childcare through fifth grade.

Iowa capped...Read more

It began as a whimsical idea that occurred to Daniel Leigh after an idyllic trip to the United States: Sell his family's five-bedroom home in England and travel the world with his wife, Lauren Vaknine, and their two children.

So he was surprised when, a few months later, Vaknine and their children, Braxton, 10, and Viva, 7, agreed to go along ...Read more

We’ve hit a rough patch over mowing the lawn this summer. The husband is temporarily sidelined with a knee injury and I cheerfully and enthusiastically (a slight exaggeration) volunteered to do the mowing.

We are now engulfed in turf wars. My mowing abilities are under intense scrutiny. The man has high standards. I call him the Sodfather.

...Read more

Q: I'm in trouble. My ex is very angry that I did not pass on a confidence that our child told me, but she asked me not to tell her dad. I want her to trust me, so I kept it a secret, but when her father found out, he hit the roof. Now he's angry and she thinks I breached her confidence. What's good ex-etiquette?

A: That's a great question ...Read more

We are living through The Era of Collective Parental Psychosis: a time whereby we have forsaken the Collective Parental Wisdom amassed by parents throughout all of human evolution to instead favor irrational and nonsensical ideas about raising kids.

This collective wisdom had been spread in the simplest, most natural and most effective way ...Read more

A young orthodontist with what I hope is good eyesight recently said I have a Hollywood smile. I didn’t want to press my luck by asking if he meant I should star in a horror movie.

So I was greatly relieved when I saw that the new retainers he made for me don’t have fangs.

I went to the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The canal that flows between Fort Lauderdale resident Harry Rozelle’s house and his church is so infested with bacteria that his teenage son, Cruz, was hospitalized after swimming in it three years ago.

As he tended to his sick son, who had contracted E. coli and salmonella from the polluted waterway, Rozelle thought...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Robert Lyles has spent more than two decades raising children, but he says he is still learning what it means to be a father.

“I don’t know everything,” Lyles said.

With eight children ranging from 23 to 1-year-old, Lyles has learned that parenting looks different for every child. He joined Durham’s Nurturing Fathers ...Read more