My dad works at a shop that works on restoring antique cars. It’s a small shop with only a handful of employees, and the owner is really cool. He has always talked about how the pay isn’t the best, but the owner really takes care of him. You know, by providing things like decent health [...]

You want a Stuart custom home but don’t want to trust that task to just any builder. You want a builder who has a sterling reputation, who has a recognizable degree of craftsmanship. You want an Arthur Rutenberg home, a design that is physically poetic and literary.  You want visitors to your home to remember the experience, and [...]

Cooking seems to me to have become a lost art.  With all the pre-packaged convenience foods now available, why bother trying to cook?  It’s so much easier — and often cheaper — to buy prepared frozen meals and just heat them up.
I wish more people took cooking and cooking schools seriously.  Perhaps what people need [...]

I’m a black thumb: I kill plants.  Here are the various ways plants have died by my hands.

Forgetting to water them.  This has happened too many times to count.  I just don’t remember to water plants often enough.  There’s only so many times they can shrivel up and be revived again with a watering binge.
Watering [...]