This marks the end of my second full year editing Experience Life. Two years of reading and writing about wellness, fitness and quality of life.

How to play the right role in your child’s eating choices.

There’s nothing more satisfying than spending time with the ones you love best. So why is it so hard to pull off?

Forget pouring out your innermost secrets — your fitness log may have a few things to tell you. Which is why you oughta start keeping one.

Hey, did we get an abridged-version of summer this year? I swear it was July before I even got my garden in, and then it seemed like the next time I looked, all my plants were already going to seed.

James Beard inspired my family to make this dish. His recipe was based on a traditional field hand’s lunch handed down from Spanish settlers in Southern California.

How can you do your part for your country when work is swallowing you whole?

People keep harping about how horrible sugar is for your health. Can it really be as bad as they say?

Recipe retrofitting is one way to cut back on unwanted sugars and fats. But it’s not always your best strategy for healthier eating.

Remember those resolutions you made six months ago? Maybe you’d rather not. But why forgive and forget when you can fix and forge ahead? We’ll show you how.

Are you going through the motions and settling for so-so results? Maybe you need a master plan – and a mesocycle.

Maybe it’s my imagination, but I’ve begun to notice this weird phenomenon in my editing work. If I start working on an interesting story, or I get into researching a new topic, I’ll often have some sort of direct personal experience with the subject matter. Some of these serendipitous encounters are quite pleasant. Others, not so much.