Daniel Amen wants to get inside your head. The 57-year-old psychiatrist, who’s spent more than 20 years studying brain scans, has used the research collected at his four Ame...

Noelle Dorment and her husband, Mike, didn’t drive only themselves crazy when they were looking for their dream house in Kensington’s Chevy Chase View neighborhood. They t...

When a pencak silat black belt throws a punch to an opponent’s groin, it doesn’t just look painful — it looks beautiful. The graceful Indonesian fighting discipline sure...

There’s a chance she’ll really love that set of dumbbells. But there’s also the chance that they’ll go over about as well as a lump of coal. It’s possible to give th...

Pat Wilkinson loved his 3,400-square-foot waterfront vacation home on Gibson Island, Md., but it was getting to be too much for him to take care of. He put it up for sale in O...

Baby weight is something you want to lose. But baby weights are something you want to use, says Joshua Levitt, a father of three who recognized that his kids could do double d...

When Joe Graedon lost his mother in 1996 following a series of hospital errors, she became one of at least 500,000 people who die each year from such mistakes. So the pharmaco...

Adam Kisielewski loves walking around his brand-new Frederick, Md., home, partly because of its open floor plan, custom-built cabinetry and thick crown molding, but mostly jus...

Michael Pollan never meant to be a food writer. His original passion was nature. “But if you’re interested in where the human and natural worlds intersect, and how we exer...

A house is more than just four walls. It’s a window to a history everyone relates to: how domestic life has changed over the centuries. In “At Home: A Short History of Pri...

When Kristen Bocanegra’s friend gave birth in January 2010, she realized the new mom needed some babying, too. “I felt like I really wanted to do something for her, to try...

You don’t have to be a chef when you start introducing your baby to solid foods, but it doesn’t hurt. Eight-month-old Jackson Critchley might not be scarfing down fettucin...

Unless you live at the House of Sweden, with its floor-to-ceiling glass walls, leaving your windows uncovered could make them look, well, naked. The perched-on-the-Potomac emb...

You can never have too many shoes, especially if you’re Blake Mycoskie, founder of Toms. The footwear brand specializes in Argentine alpargata shoes (think flat espadril...