When we have guests around at this time of year, we’ll be bringing out our best linen. It’s saved for such occasions. I’m not saying we wouldn’t want to use these napkins all the year round. It’s just that some things – like fine Waterford, or a 1990...

Here are 10 of my favorite “life lessons” written by Regina Brett, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. Perfect reminders for the spirit of the holidays. 1. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 2. Don’t compare your life to others. You...

Books are a perfect gift for your favorite child, cook, art lover, gossip monger, business mind, interior designer and all around literature lover. I will never have enough books, nothing better than flipping through a great coffee table book for...

Taking the shoot to a whole different level, Nick Brandt photographs wild animals in East Africa as if they were posing for him in a studio. He says, “Aside from using certain impractical photographic techniques, there’s one thing I do whilst shooting...

I love Christmas, I love everything thing about it. I love the decorating, cookie making, music, parties, the old time TV specials Frosty the Snowman, Little Drummer Boy, etc..(that Heat Meizer still scares me), writing holiday cards,  wrapping and...