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We recently asked our readers for their worst holiday entertaining disasters and we got some doozies! There is no doubt about it: cooking a turkey is not as easy as it sounds. Use these stories as cautionary tales as you prepare to host your friends and family this year. And be careful!

Here are just a few ideas to that might help you fill your stockings on the cheap – and avoid useless chachkas that end up in the trash on Boxing Day.

Loneliness, love, alienation and trying to find one’s way in the world aren’t exactly uncommon themes in novels, but author Paolo Giordano covered them exquisitely in his book, The Solitude of Prime Numbers. If you’d like to read variations on those themes, here are some suggestions.

For most of us, the holidays wouldn’t be the same without certain foods and family recipes.

I love buying gifts for my girlfriends, but this holiday we gave one another something even better: uninterrupted time together.

As the health editor for Chatelaine.com, I come across new health advice, books, and products every day. But applying all that information to my day-to-day life isn't always easy and sometimes I need a healthy kick in the behind as much as the next person.

Look fabulous at any age in one of this season’s hottest trends

Get Chatelaine’s 90 favourite Christmas cookies from shortbread to macarons, gingerbread to sugar cookies and so many more!

One of the most troubling things about cancer is that it can strike almost anyone, anywhere at any time — and that the likelihood of getting cancer is increasing.

Now that I have a wee one, and there are plenty of holiday play dates, potlucks, and other get togethers, seems like it’s as good a time as any to make cookies almost too pretty to eat.

A study (via The Daily Mail) done by researchers in Australia and the U.S. suggests that babies who are cared for by nurturing and affectionate mothers may be better equipped to resist the trap of drug addiction later in life than those who were raised by hands-off caregivers.

Little girls aren’t the only ones daydreaming of a white wedding. Andrew Braithwaite fesses up — he’s been planning his big day since he was seven