Once upon a time, a good Italian sandwich was only a short walk away for most people in Bath. Each neighborhood had its own corner store where kids bought penny candy and parents bought beer and cigarettes. Almost all of these stores have gone the way of the Dodo bird, but they live on in […]

How likely am I to get the money back when I sell my house? It’s a fundamental question facing anyone who has ever embarked on a home renovation. There’s no easy answer, because what a buyer might be willing to pay depends on many factors — everything from the choice of project, to the materials […]

Some of us like maps. Some of us don’t dislike them as much as we never thought much about them. If you study geography, you spend a lot of time with maps. Map people love when non-map people confuse Sweden with Switzerland — the latter is where they yodel, the home of Heidi; the former […]

“Gram, you know that thing you make that’s like lasagna?” My 7-year-old grandson’s big blue eyes rolled sky-ward as he tried to come up with the name of one of his favorite meals. After a slew of wrong answers and many more questions, we all realized he was trying to come up with the word […]