Our menu is all-American, but it has been tweaked. We keep what has worked and have added new items to update and add some flair. I'd say we're almost a true supper club.

We wanted to take it off the menu, but people come from far away just for the liver and onions.

It just was something we hadn't done before. We looked at it and thought it was an area we could improve. Kmart is constantly looking at what our customers want and what we can offer them.

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.