This picture entitled "Catch of the day," was taken by Robert Ormsby from his deck near Burtis Bay. The photo, taken the last week in July, shows Ormsby's neighbor's fishing net and the Summer Wind in the background. Send us your ''Best Shot'' of unique moments in your family's life. Write ...

Editor's Note: This is the fifth column in a series featuring the author's travels along Route 66.Our beloved Route 66 had become mostly frontage roads in the State of Texas. In some cases ranchers had installed cattle guards at property entrances to keep their cattle and other animals off the ...

I want to tell you a story. When I'm finished, I invite you to close your eyes to visualize this talk of two families. One family lives relatively securely in a nice comfortable home. The home is surrounded by a large expanse of lawn. The family is quite busy with its respective ...

When I was a little girl living on Ivy Street, I could hear the rhythmic pounding of metal on metal from factories down along the Chadakoin River. I remember it as an incessant noise to daily life, not loud but always in the air- sometimes louder than others depending on the wind and weather. ...

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 ...

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 ...