Want to monitor the Legislature in your pajamas?

Starting Wednesday, the Arizona Science Center hosts a seven-day snow extravaganza with 30 tons of real snow. Daily themes include a pajama day, gingerbread and candy day, LEGO building day, snowman build and fruitcake launching day, ugly sweater day, train day and a New Year’s Celebration with a “Dancing in the Depot” party.

It happens every year around this time — the ritual, hot chocolate-enhanced, pajama-clad viewing of the heartwarming 1946 holiday movie “It’s A Wonderful Life,” starring Jimmy Stewart as downtrodden everyman George Bailey.

With the holidays upon us, it’s that time of year when we feel the urge to do something good for someone else. And what could warm your heart more than doing something to brighten the life of a child in need? The Maricopa County Head Start Zero-Five Program is hoping local groups, businesses or organizations will consider organizing a pajama/book drive for the little ones it serves.

As college students return to campus, they’ll be showered in the usual handouts of coupons, condoms and credit cards. But some schools are also giving students what a growing body of research reveals could make a huge difference in their college careers: ear plugs, sleep shades and napping lessons.

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” — The Second Amendment

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." — The Second Amendment

As the thousands of Sophias and Isabellas and Jacobs and Masons born this past year will learn when they go to pick up their backpacks off the soccer field or sort their duffels in college dorms, their names aren’t as unique as they are.

Four days a week this summer, Anita Mosesman and her two daughters rise before 7 a.m. in order to get the girls to Gilbert’s Greenfield Pool for swim team practice.

When my husband and I first told our family that I was pregnant a mostly-kidding brother-in-law’s response was, “Why?”

When my husband and I first told our family that I was pregnant a mostly-kidding brother-in-law’s response was, “Why?”

As a child, I never appreciated that old cliché, “Silence is golden.” I thought silence was boring, and preferred music, or the sounds of my friends chatting away.

More than 320 sets of new pajamas were collected this holiday season by St. John Bosco Catholic School students for "Jamma Jingles," an annual pajama drive to benefit children from newborn to 17 years of age.

I looked in the mirror.

I looked in the mirror.

As the end of the year approaches and holiday celebrations kick into high gear, Perry Branch Library will host its fifth annual Caroling in the Library event 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1.

In all the hoopla surrounding Saguaro High School football coach John Sanders' recent decision to sit his players against Chaparral, one element seems to have escaped analysis.

Charles Hinckley, an artist, playwright and Ahwatukee Foothills resident, is introducing himself to the Phoenix scene on Thursday with his new original play, "The Man in the Black Pajamas."

Charles Hinckley, an artist, playwright and Ahwatukee Foothills resident, is introducing himself to the Phoenix scene on Thursday with his new original play, "The Man in the Black Pajamas."

Sometimes, nothing hits the spot like brinner — breakfast for dinner.

Sometimes, nothing hits the spot like brinner — breakfast for dinner.