Temporary relief from pain, stress and illness can be as easy as walking to the spa and ordering a foot rub. Timi Spacht, staff member of Laguna Point Salon and Day Spa, describes the specialized service that transforms the casual foot massage into a science-based practice called reflexology.

What type of houseplant makes a nice gift this time of the year? Retailers are doing a great job of coming up with colorful, exotic looking stuff you’ve never heard of before – and the care of which you know even less. This season, lots of folks will take a chance on unusual plants, hoping they’ve selected something that will last a while. Others, like poinsettias, seem to begin to self-destruct shortly after you find a space for them.

"If music be the food of love, play on!" ~ Twelfth Night Harrisburg presents many gifts to those who desire artistic excellence. They are wrapped carefully with red ribbon and should prompt residents to increase their cultural self-esteem. The fine arts in this capital city rival those that many larger cities boast, including world-class musicians.

Jason Bristol was 22, a year out of college and still looking for a job in television. He found one in West Virginia, in a speck of a town called Bridgeport – population: 7,000. The local CBS affiliate there gave Bristol a six-minute window to talk about sports on the weekends.

It was my idea all along. As a lifelong skier, I have always wanted to heli-ski and, at age 46, I could feel time and my confidence running out on this adventure. So our family ski trip to the Canadian Rockies offered the perfect opportunity to cross this experience off my bucket list.

Death and loss are a part of life – and so is grief. Yet, when many of us go through a time of pain or loss, we feel like we’re not normal, that what we feel must not be OK and that we should be better at coping with the change in our lives. “It can feel like something is wrong with you, but that is not the case,” says Elaine Potts, counselor at the Family Resource and Counseling Center in Lancaster.

When it comes to starting your own business, York’s Sarah Lanphier proves that sometimes those ideas you come up with in college can work out. Lamphier, 23, is the owner of Nuts About Granola, a company she created while attending Elizabethtown College.