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Edible Procrastination

Erin Gardner shares her delicious distractions in her new book “Procrastibaking: 100 Recipes for Getting Nothing Done in the Most Delicious Way Possible.”

OK, What's Next?

The plague, the Spanish flu. We all read about them when we studied history in school. Such horrors seemed like artifacts of the past, long-ago tales of unimaginable death. But here we are, in the midst of another pandemic. Fortunately, with our contemporary medical knowledge, the toll is not likely to be as great. But in this respect, it is the same as it was in past pandemics — it will change us, in ways large and small. We talked to people in various fields to get their perspectives.

Samantha Brown Really Gets Around

The Travel Channel star and the host of “Samantha Brown’s Places to Love” on PBS gives a little love to her home state, and learns a thing or two about what it has to offer to avid explorers.