Chestnuts roasting on an open fire in your wood-burning fireplace are wonderful until your heating bill arrives. Then you discover heat from your furnace goes up the chimney along with heat from the wood. Is there a way to increase the heat from your fireplace to lower your fuel costs?
Yes! Here are nine ways from Leroy Hite, CEO and founder of Cutting Edge Firewood in Peachtree Corners, Georgia.
Burn Good Wood Often, what passes as firewood has been in a pile for years, rotting and growing mushrooms. Read More...
“You’re having a baby? Fantastic.” It seems like a good sentiment to express to someone who’s pregnant. And it often is. But nothing is simple when there’s a due date involved. Like with a soon-to-be dad, it’s easy to say the wrong thing to a woman who’s pregnant because her life and emotions are not static. “She has an experience that’s changing moment to moment, day by day,” says Dr. Kira Bartlett, clinical psychologist in New York City. Read More...
There will be a teddy bear. There always is. Stuffed animals are not simply ubiquitous — more than half of American adults still have their childhood teddy bears — but they’re ubiquitous for a reason. Scientists regularly find that so-called “transitional objects” like stuffed animals help children handle emotions and limit stress. In the aftermath of the 2012 school shooting in Newton, Connecticut, well-meaning donors sent 7,000 teddy bears to survivors and their families. Read More...