http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle General Lifestyle coverage en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:39:42 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208684-51-0.stm?cmpid=generallifestyle.xml As thousands of students reach their high school years, levels of stress continue to increase. This is especially true for females; in my school, when I took a survey of 24 students (a group of 12 boys and 12 girls) that asked them if high school is stressful for them, 11 out of the 12 girls responded "yes," while only 50 percent of boys seem to let high school bog down their spirits. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208421-53-0.stm?cmpid=generallifestyle.xml After 31 years of providing day care for elderly people as an alternative to a nursing home, Vintage Senior Services in East Liberty is phasing out that service through June. It will continue to operate as a senior center. The cost of adult day care has outpaced the flat funding levels of recent years, executive director Ann Truxell said. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208306-51-0.stm?cmpid=generallifestyle.xml The visitors have been coming at a steady trickle, reverent, bemused, squinting at the crabbed handwriting in the anguished letters from his American tour ("They will never leave me alone ... I shake hands every day ... with five or six hundred people"), the missives on mesmerism, philanthropy, storytelling, Christmas books and his own manic energy. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208080-51-0.stm?cmpid=generallifestyle.xml Three hundred and fifty years ago, using the wrong pronouns in Massachusetts could land you in hot water. If you were a Quaker living in a Massachusetts Bay settlement circa 1660, your transgressive language would have made you a target for the governing Puritans. Quakers rejected the hierarchical pronoun system that required ye, you and your to be used as a sign of deference to superiors. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:20:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208319-51.stm?cmpid=generallifestyle.xml The august Morgan Library in midtown Manhattan houses the second largest collection of manuscripts and letters after the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, including the original manuscript of "A Christmas Carol," one of only a handful of Dickens' original works located outside Britain, said Declan Kiely, the Robert H. Taylor Curator of Manuscripts at the library. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:09:00 -0500