The "20 books a month read-aloud" project I started in September. Together with my daughters, a 1st grader and a middle-year ...

I have added some revisions and corrections to an essay I previously serialized on note, and am republishing it here as a collection. I was born in a settlement called Shirahama (Funkotsu), about five ...

Rocky Top Ranch, a family-owned petting zoo, is celebrating 35 years of introducing children and adults to unusual animals at events across North Dakota. One of its repeated hosts is Berry Acres ...

A hideaway with L’Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay offers an elegant way to reconnect with family, with nature and with oneself ...

Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily ...

A rabies scare is unfolding in North Carolina after four baby goats from a mobile petting zoo tested positive for the deadly virus or were presumed infected. The animals from Farm Adventures traveled ...

A North Carolina family spent the day feeding and playing with petting zoo goats before learning the animals were connected to a rabies investigation.

Do spiders really fall from the sky? What exactly is the Matilda effect? And where can vending machines give out free food ...

People who had contact with the animals are urged to contact health officials in at least eight North Carolina counties.

Parade Pets and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. There are some dogs who need a very specific amount of personal space. Then there is this Great Pyrenees, who apparently looked at ...

Health officials in North Carolina say nearly 300 people were exposed to rabies after baby goats in a mobile petting zoo contracted the disease.

Local health departments in North Carolina have evaluated hundreds of people for rabies after they interacted with baby goats that were part of a mobile petting zoo, according to the state Department ...