In an aromatic restaurant filled with the fragrance of baking cheese, the extended table of women spread out on either side of me like the wings of an enormous bird. The 20-or-so of us had just completed a long-planned project and we were celebrating success. ...more

January 7, 2009

It's the American dream but owning a home is something many of us took for granted as children. Either our parents owned the homes we grew up in or we were too young to know the difference. ...more

December 5, 2008

Bone Yard Dogs will perform at the Cotee River October Bike Fest in New Port Richey on Saturday. That Oct. 11 performance will come two weeks after the band took to the amphitheatre stage in Sims Park for Founders Day, an annual event sponsored by Greater New Port Richey Main Street. ...more

October 8, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scooching in between Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson sounds intimidating, if not a little scary. But Kara DioGuardi, the newly-installed fourth judge on "American Idol," is confident she'll find her niche within the bickering, ratings-tested judges' panel where the line between love and hate is blurred with every critique. ...more

August 26, 2008

As the torrential rains finally tapered off Friday night, Land O'Lakes boys swimming coach Barbara Hayes found her team much closer to a regional championship than she anticipated. ...more

October 27, 2007