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How to sit and set up your workspace without getting tied up in knots

Amanda Kowalski Business Management, Services & Risk Management

The worldwide pandemic has left a lot of office and school buildings empty and thousands of people figuring out how to set up workspaces and classrooms at home, using mostly what they have around the house. For some, it’s a kid's school desk and chair, a fat recliner, a little-used antique secretary and an equally old rolling chair or even the kitchen table — none designed for eight hours of sitting. So how should you set up a workstation or classroom so you and your kid don't end up looking and feeling like pretzels?

8 great family hiking trails

Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

Taking the kids on a hike — particularly now during the relentless COVID-19 pandemic — can be great fun or far from it. To make sure it is a journey of discovery enjoyed by one and all, you’ve got to pick the right trail. We've uncovered eight trails around the country that represent some of the best family hikes in America. Hopefully, there's one near you.

Uncertainty is one thing you can count on

Lloyd Princeton Business Management, Services & Risk Management

One of the oft-repeated truisms in business circles is that the only constant is change. It’s not hard to see why. Rapid acceleration in technological innovation, communications, global commerce, and mass customization have forced businesses to be constantly on the watch for the next big or new thing and retool quickly to embrace it. Now, add to that not knowing when or whether you can operate your business or to what extent or with which staff.

Villa stays spike as solution for safe, sumptuous vacation choices

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

As travel circles and sputters amid plans made, plans changed and plans canceled due to COVID-19 concerns, one travel formula is seeing great success as a fun and safe alternative to staying in crowded hotels. Thoughts have turned to private villas and chalets in scenic, if not breathtaking, destinations for vacations long and short and with all the pampering one can handle.

Baby boomers deserve a lot of attention from businesses, too

Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

Jill Filipovic argues in her new book that millennials have been going through tougher economic circumstances than any generation since the Great Depression. I am neither a millennial nor a boomer, but the media coverage about Filipovic's arguments got my attention. The fact is, no matter if we are in the position of supporting or challenging Filipovic's propositions, we cannot deny that we need boomers to boost post-pandemic consumption.

Survey: Road trips tied to happiness during COVID-19

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

Summer travel is looking quite different this year. For North Americans, the search has been on for safe and affordable travel ways to get away and find an escape for the mind. To that end, new research shows hitting the road in an RV may be the way to go — especially for families on a quest for a packaging of sanity and safe travels.

Without baseball crowds, some businesses grapple with a grim new reality

Kevin Reynolds Sports & Fitness

When people call baseball "America's pastime," it has little to do with the country's current interest in the sport. Baseball is the ultimate reliable companion. For 162 nights, baseball will be on in the background of people’s homes and bars. The 60-game, fanless sprint in Major League Baseball for 2020 is the antithesis of what anyone has known about the sport. And now, vendors and communities are paying a price.

Optimism beckons for 2020-21 deer hunting season in Texas

John McAdams Recreation & Leisure

It’s always nice to get a little bit of good news, and that’s especially true with everything that’s been going on lately. Though 2020 has been an eventful year to this point, hunting season is fast approaching in the Lone Star State and things are looking great for both whitetail and mule deer. Spring rains came just in time to provide plentiful food for wildlife, which should bode well for both fawn recruitment and antler growth.

Flying scared? You’re not alone

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted how comfortable Americans are traveling these days, especially if that trip involves a flight. In fact, a new survey from The Manifest shows that more than two-thirds of Americans these days are afraid to fly the friendly skies. Older Americans are particularly concerned when it comes to regions experiencing surges in cases.

Down on the farm: 6 of the US’ best agricultural museums

Dave G. Houser Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

If you've ever tended a backyard garden or tried to raise a few chickens, you know that farming is hard, dirty work. Keeping America's kitchens supplied during the coronavirus pandemic has made things even harder for farmers — earning these most essential of essential workers the respect and appreciation of an entire nation. For those interested in learning more about American farms and ranches, there are a number of farming and agricultural museums around the country. Here are six of them.

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