Thursday: Fairfax, VA School spirit: University of Virginia, Hopkins, University of Michigan. From the Swiss Bakery: favorite rolls. Plus ch...

Background: “Around 1870 new advances started coming led by new companies with names like Pillsbury, Heinz, Quaker Mill, Lipton. A man named...

Eating Out  Friday lunch at the Guernsey Farms Dairy Restaurant in Novi, Michigan. The cow mural in the entryway is so great, I have to shar...

  Sunrise at the Port Arthur oil refinery, which is not far from some good birding sites. Our guide prepares a picnic lunch on the last full...

  The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant doesn’t live up to its promise as a family saga. It tells the story of an immigrant Jewish family ...