It's spring. Wind's up. Time to break out the kites. Last weekend, I brought home a simple, solidly built $10 kite for the next clear, windy weekend day. Knowing that our preschooler won't be terribly ...

After teaching kite pattern design, Guo Hongli, the renowned kite-maker from Weifang, shows how to build a kite framework by making a small cross of two pieces of light wood. [Photo by Zhao ...

If you plan it right, kite flying can be a breeze. That’s never quite been the case with us, but maybe that’s because we’d routinely buy the cheapest drugstore kite we could find, get painful string ...

You may not often see kites lining the Chattanooga sky, but after Oct. 8, that's bound to change. At least, Chuck Jones hopes it will. That Saturday, thousands are expected to be drawn to the ...

Mary Poppins, that most-proper nanny, wasn’t all starch and regimented bedtimes. She knew that there were days, when the breeze was right and the spring restlessness high, that the really proper thing ...