The start of the New Year is always an exciting time filled with resolutions to live healthier and happier for the next 12 months.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The holidays allow you to let your usually downplayed soft side really glow.

These hors d’oeuvres are so pretty that they should be photographed before they magically disappear!

I was sorry to hear about the death of Ryan O'Neal. “Paper Moon” is one of my all-time favorite movies. How is his daughter Tatum doing?

Pliny the Elder once wrote how the Druids held nothing more sacred than finding mistletoe growing on an oak tree.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your plans to take control of a personal situation because you feel the most qualified could create resentment.

Fuss-Free Festivities: 3 No-Bake Peanut Butter Delights for the Holidays.

Whatever happened to the guy who was pranked on the show “Jury Duty”? He seems like such a nice person. I hope he's doing well.

SPANAKOPITA BITES. With its unique blend of textures and flavours, this appetizer may just steal the show at your holiday party.

A healthy poinsettia will have attractive, intact bracts (the “petals”). Check the soil; it shouldn't be very wet or very dry.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Avoid rushing to make up for lost time on a stalled workplace operation.

I occasionally see actress Jennifer Tilly on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” because she's friends with Sutton Stracke. Is she still acting?

Step into the magical world of dulce de leche, a sweet and velvety caramel delight with roots deep in Latin American culinary traditions.

On internet memes, they call them “life hacks,” simple tricks to save you perhaps time, money or simply frustration.

This fragant substance is harvested from the Boswellia sacra species, also known as the olibanum.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A new development could snarl travel schedules or other holiday projects.