The average American spends 8.8 hours at work each day. That's more than most people spend respectively in leisure activities or sleeping.

Editor's note: Jill Adams is a professional writer based in Fort Wayne.

Q: Since my daughter starting using the NuvaRing for birth control a year ago, she's gained 40 pounds. She exercises every day and sticks to a strict diet, but she hasn't lost an ounce.

It's been 150 years. But the theory of evolution remains just as controversial in some people's minds as it did when Charles Darwin published his “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” in 1859.

Fall means a return to school, harvest time and the change of seasons.