Although the small village in the Dominican Republic where Noris Binet grew up lacked a church, the locals often turned to her aunt, Tita Tina, the pueblo’s medicine woman and wise sage, for spiritual guidance.

Like many who move to lakeside, my husband and I needed to furnish a house quickly.

The Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – has a “dynamic duo” of taxes:  The Net Investment Income Tax and the Additional Medicare Tax.

“Having been thrown into a place of needing money has gone from embarrassing to humiliating.”

Poet and attorney Tomás Gayton, born in Seattle, has investigated the history of his slave forbears and traveled extensively in Mexico, Africa and elsewhere. In this excerpt from his book, “Sojourn on the Bohemian Highway,” he details one of his trips to Mexico and his research into the little-known history of Africans here.

The fact that the majority of girls’ bathrooms in San Juan Cosala schools are void of trash receptacles may not seem like a big deal to most, but for menstruating girls, it can be a dealbreaker as to whether they attend school during their monthly cycles or not.