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Katy Read

Reporter | Niche products

Phone: 612-673-4583

Katy Read writes about aging, wellness and other feature topics for the niche products department. She joined the Star Tribune in 2011, and has written for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Duluth News-Tribune and the Crookston Daily Times. Her freelance writing has appeared in Salon.com, More, Real Simple, Working Mother, Minnesota Monthly and anthologies including “TORN: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood.”

Spring cleaning: Tips for purging your unwanted stuff

Time to weed through the stuff stashed in your closets and drawers and the cobwebby corners of your basement, to decide which items to keep and which to give away or toss.

Updated: March 19, 2013, - 08:28 AM

Car shopping: Make a checklist before heading out

What’s the first thing you should do when checking out a potential car purchase? Kick the tires? Look under the hood? Sit behind the wheel and imagine yourself speeding down the Autobahn at 90 miles per hour? No on all three.

Updated: March 07, 2013, - 05:17 PM

Dealers expect bumper Twin Cities Auto Show

With the auto industry seemingly cruising along the road to recovery, organizers are expecting enthusiasm for this year’s Twin Cities Auto Show, which opens Saturday and runs through March 17, to be in high gear.

Updated: March 07, 2013, - 05:16 PM

It's auto show time

Bigger and better than ever, this year's Twin Cities Auto Show has entertainment for the whole family.

Updated: March 07, 2013, - 01:03 PM

Memory loss is normal, but it's not healthy

So how’s your memory? Pretty normal for your age? Uh-oh. “Normal” is not ideal when it comes to the ability to form...

Updated: February 28, 2013, - 02:04 PM

Save the photos: Recommendations for optimal preservation

Spend time talking photo preservation with Bob Herskovitz and Joe Hoover of the Minnesota Historical Society, and you may find yourself thinking about the contents of your closets.

Updated: February 26, 2013, - 02:17 PM

Vivid living helps boost brain fitness

A couple of people who had started in wheelchairs can now push themselves up and use walkers. A woman’s journal entries...

Updated: February 26, 2013, - 01:08 PM

Less is (much) more in high intensity training

Strenuous but short and infrequent workouts are the key to high-intensity resistance training, a technique gradually gaining popularity across the country

Updated: January 07, 2013, - 10:19 AM