The audition is the final performance.

The 'Wizard of Oz' has many layers to it and has sentimental value for many adults.

We wanted a community activity where everyone in town would read one book and we wanted the children to be involved.

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

You hate to lose anybody like that.