Spring Cleaning Tips from Founder of Luxury Consignment Site eDrop-Off

Corri McFadden's business moves 1500 fashion items a week on eBay. Here, she breaks down how to get the most out of cleaning out your closet, from what sells to how to sell it. Photo Credit: Corri McFadden

Take your kid's room from toddler to teen on a budget

The sunshine-yellow walls, the red-flowered rug and the ladybug quilt: They all had to go.

“The Aleppo Codex”: The bizarre history of a precious book

An ancient and priceless book, a murky history of evasions and coverups, an underground of sinister and possibly violent dealers, a former spy who drops tantalizing hints and a wily 84-year-old millionaire who says stuff like, "The problem with this story is that it could damage your health": Are these the ingredients for a cheesy, improbable historical thriller? Yet "The Aleppo Codex," Matti ...

My dad’s 30-year coming out

I must’ve been eight or nine the one time my dad took me along to meet Bart. This was somewhere near Tompkins Square Park. What I recalled was a shaggy shock of blue hair, and feelings of both elation and terror: On the one hand thrilled to be old enough to be taken along one night to the city to meet a guy with blue hair, and on the other frightened of the jagged dark in the Alphabet City of ...

Augusten Burroughs: Conquer trauma by letting it go

Many people continue to feel influenced and even controlled by the things that happened to them a long time ago. Sometimes, people harbor dark, traumatic memories from childhood. Or fragments of memories — incomplete scenes, uncomfortable feelings, perhaps even a sense of certainty that something specific and terrible happened to them, but little more than this. Others experienced something ...