This week, as we near the end of 2025, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. ou’re entering your homemaker era,” my mother said earlier ...

I wear jeans a lot, practically every day. When my jeans get a hole I patch them and wear them in the garden. But eventually they get too holey to wear even in the garden. What can I do with my old ...

If you’re sick of holey socks, toes that show through or heels without cushioning, we found what might be the last pair of socks you ever buy in your lifetime. Darn Tough Vermont makes tough socks — ...

Times have changed since our grandmothers darned their holey socks to save a few bucks. Now, people are buying holey socks to save a few trees. Hole Socks, the invention of two New York-based ...

Darn, did we get a pack o’ postcards, and letters and e-mails too. Eighty-nine in all, from folks inspired by our MaryJane Butters story (“The Leader of the Farmgirl Pack,” July 25), in which we dared ...

RAVE to my husband who insists on wearing socks with holes in them (“They’re perfectly good”), thus providing a source of amusement and a topic of conversation when we visit a shoe-free home. RANT to ...