My neighbor's house is an old queen. She sits back from the street atop a small slope, surveying the passage of time with her steady eye - a grand dame who has seen it all but will never relinquish her crown.I love her wide hallways and old floors. I love her porch because it is overly generous ...

I recently received two books to review, one featuring a dog, and one a cat, both published by St. Martin's Press.The first is a paperback, selling for $7.99, entitled "Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything," by Nancy Martin. It's a cozy, with the body safely and bloodlessly disposed of before the ...

There's a lot to worry about as a parent. It's never what's happening to you as a result of your actions, but what's happening to your children because of them. You just don't want to mess them up.I can probably write a topic a week about this. But for now, I'm going to focus on sports.Full ...

Tonya Taber of Jamestown may not have had a lot of cooking experience as she was growing up, but once she got started there was no holding her back."I didn't cook much when I was growing up, but I did bake pies and cakes when I was seven," she says. "I pretty much lived with my grandmother on ...

Welcome to another edition of Let's Talk Photography! As we move from one topic to the next, you'll find me bouncing between basic camera information for beginners and more advanced topics for those of us "photo nerds" out there. I want to maintain interest for as many photo enthusiasts as ...

Many fraternal organizations began during the last half of the 1800s. The Masons and the Oddfellows had earlier beginnings. These organizations usually began when a group of men saw a need within their circle of friends. Many were patterned after the Masonic orders with degrees, rituals and, of ...