What stands out at the best events you’ve attended, be they dinner parties or backyard barbecues? It’s the ambience, the conversation, the connection, and the fun. When it comes to being a fabulous hostess, it’s about much more than simply food. Socialization Savvy The first rule of being the best host or hostess you can…
Going Whole-Hog: Meet the 2 Friends Teaching the Ultimate Do-It-Yourself, Pasture-to-Plate Experience
Every hog butchering performed by Doug Wharton and Andy Lane of Hand Hewn Farm begins the same way. They start in the early morning, when the mist still clings to the grass. There is no chaos, none of the nervous energy that makes both hog and butcher unsteady. This constructed calm also settles the nerves…
The End of Education as We Know It? (Part 2 of 2)
The new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot known as ChatGPT is poised to have an outsized effect on the educational landscape, for better or for worse. Which outcome it will lead to is largely in the hands of parents, educators, and—ultimately—our children, and how they respond to it. To ignore it is to do so at…
Dear Next Generation: Marriage Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Marriage lessons learned the hard way, including nuggets of wisdom from my third wife, also in her third marriage, this one lasting 25 years: In a “trial marriage,” the one on trial is the one who cares the most, and there is nothing right about that. Learning lessons the hard way can result in lifelong…
Turn Chip Crumbs Into Savory Breakfast Casserole
Migas is a crumby dish. Literally. The word means “crumbs” in Spanish. It’s also an Iberian recipe that was once popular with hunters and mountain people in southern Spain and Portugal. From there, it made its way to Mexico and Texas, taking on a new variation wherever it took hold. Migas is a method as…
Ed Perkins on Travel: Tempting, Tricky, and Taboo
A new (to me, at least) air travel hack lets you buy elite status in a few lines’ programs. It joins other hoary hacks, around for years, that offer some great cost reductions but violate airline policies and contracts. Two outfits—airlinestatus.com/ and joindeluxe.com—sell time-limited elite status in several major airlines. Currently, airlinestatus.com sells Gold and…
Athens: Weaving Old With New
A century and a half ago, Athens was a humble, forgotten city of about 8,000 people. Today, one out of every three Greeks packs into this city of over 3 million. The city is infamous for its sprawl, noise, and pollution. For a long time, my advice was to see the big sights, then get…
How to Decide to Accept an Offer
Dear Monty: We were selling our home and listed it with a real estate agent we know. We just finished the final touches to show the house, so it goes on the market in a few days. The agent has a customer who looked at it a few days ago. We listed it for $424,900….
Nebraska Officials Welcome Shen Yun to Omaha
Shen Yun Performing Arts took to the stage at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska on the evening of April 3, and is set to perform again on April 4. Ahead of the performance, several Nebraska officials welcomed the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company. Representative Don Bacon wrote, “thank you for the opportunity to…
Wine Gadgets
Wine lore says that the cork, which comes from the bark of the cork oak tree, may first have been used to seal wine bottles by the Benedictine monk Dom Perignon, replacing wooden stoppers in about 1670. This advance then led to the development of literally dozens of gadgets designed to remove them from bottles….
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