I vividly remember coming inside, taking off our wet corduroys, wool cable knit sweaters and socks and smelling the wood burning and my mother’s hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies. Here’s hoping for a snow day so I can take my boys to Central Park …

As a child, it always reminded me of a gingerbread house straight from the illustrated pages of a story book. To get to the house, you drove up a driveway that was very steep.

A quintessential cosy country retreat opened in 2005 by Alex Polizzi and her mother, Olga (sister of Rocco Forte), Hotel Endsleigh looks like one of those iced gingerbread houses all year round, so, as you can imagine, it comes into its own at …

An e-mail arrived from my mother in the days before Christmas asking if my husband, daughter and me make the gingerbread cookies that were a holiday tradition when I was a child. My mother, who gave up a promising career as a journalist to have …

Sap speckled Mercedes Geraldo’s and Greg Geraldo’s faces, arms and jackets Saturday as the mother-son duo made their annual rounds to gather used Christmas trees.

Celebrating Mother Earth: Young people from Ngandong hamlet, Argosoka, Dukun, Magelan perform a play titled Bumiku Ibuku or My Earth, My Mother, at the foot of Mount Merapi, to celebrate Christmas 2009 with an environmental message. JP/Suherdjoko For …

During the holidays, a heightened sense of the Mother Mary overcomes me and I pray for Mothers — old mothers and young, mothers in relations with their children and mothers who are out of sync — mothers who mother, whether they have children of …

As I have noted now and again, my mother was fairly adventurous about food and recipes, back in the day. She experimented with steaming her own home-wrapped tamales, when Mom was the only Anglo and there weren’t but about five elderly Hispanic …

Mother Goose celebrates a Gingerbread Man activity with the kindergarten class at Bel Air Elementary School. In the front is Kaelob Matthews.

The Gingerbread Pirates,” by Kristin Kladstrup, with illustrations by Matt Tavares, is an imaginative kid-pleaser. After Jim and his mother bake a batch of gingerbread pirates on Christmas Eve, peg-legged Captain Cookie prepares to do battle to …