Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

This holiday season, people aren't just using ornaments, strings of light, and a bit of garland to decorate their Christmas trees. Between all tree ribbon ideas we're seeing and that bow-festooned ...

Trees provide many benefits to the environment and our health and well-being. These long-lived members of our landscapes and communities provide shade, help reduce energy costs, clean the air we ...

Which blue Christmas trees are best? Not only do artificial Christmas trees save the headache of caring for a real tree, they also provide you the opportunity to make your tree more uniquely yours.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. At our house, you can't have Christmas without a tree. A real tree, that is. You see, I fall on the ...