In a grand year for reading, my grandest books were non-fiction.  After briefly wrestling with whether I should confine myself to one or two...

Because I believe that warding each other off bad books is a public service, I have already done that for 2020.  That said, I know most peo...

Say what you will about 2020.  It's all true.  Also, though, 2020 proved a great year for reading.  (Well, not for magazine reading.  No...

When people ask me to name the greatest issue of Cook's Country magazine ever published, I have one answer: April/May 2013 .  Yup, the ...

For the fifth straight year, the hometown nine has rewarded pessimism in our family's win predictions.  It's in the water (three who...

Well, we can't let the fact that humanity may not survive interfere with tradition, now can we?  The Pirates shall play only 60 games th...

If you, like us, have even more leftover ham than after a normal easter, here's one thing we like to do with ours. It's almost a pa...