A few years ago I saw the original Butler Bag in a boutique in Lewes, Delaware. I was entranced. The thing that made me want the bag was the inner organizer (pictured at left), hence the name “Butler.” I didn’t buy it, though. I didn’t want to spend the money for it, so I spent …

We are watching the long version of Pride and Prejudice—the Colin Firth version, of course—and as I began to write this, Mrs. Bennett says this to Bingley,”When you have killed all your own birds, Mr. Bingley, I beg you will come here and shoot as many as you please.” We could adapt that line for …

Forgive the distortion of Scripture in the title, but it seemed appropriate for this topic. Thanks to the Six Seeds parenting e-zine, I learned an interesting story about the University of Georgia head football coach Mark Richt. He and his wife put their lakefront second home up for sale in order to donate more money …

Grandparents brag. It’s what we do. So when our friends Art and Sue Sell began to brag about their grandson Trevor, I was prepared to listen politely but nothing more. Of course there was the initial “just graduated from Temple with a degree in landscape architecture.” But then they told me he was in Haiti, …