According to real estate expert Steve McLinden, America's moving back downtown.

Writing in Bankrate.com, McLinden noted that “To a growing segment of society, the ownership of large-lot McMansions with two-car garages in some labyrinthine suburb far away from the urban landscape no longer represents the American dream”. According to supporters,...

Yesterday, we'd PLANNED to go to Niagara Falls before it got too hot and crowded, so we could be home mid-day. My DH decided to go fishing before we went, and well -- we got there at 11:30. It was packed with people, it was FULL SUN, and it was HOT. I totally LOST it, and went into FULL VENT. I was totally lost in my anger, cut off from my DH, the beauty of the morning (despite the discomfort), and most importantly, from all sense of my in-dwelling God.

Then, I immediately recognized...

In 2009 :
Lo : 72 °
Hi : 91 °
Rainfall : 0.02 “ : Rain fell during the 1 & 2 p.m. hours. : Thunderstorm Occured from 2:20 to 2:30 p.m.

In 2008 :
Lo : 64 °
Hi : 90 ° : Normal
Rainfall : 0.00 ”

In 2007 :
Lo : 72 °
Hi : 98 °
Rainfall : 0.00 “

In 2006 :
Lo : 73 °
Hi : 97 °
Rainfall : 0.37 “

In 2005 :
Lo : 76 °** : Record Warmest
Hi : 100 °
Rainfall...

It became an American institution almost immediately. There was such an obsession with this game where one contestant out of ten gets an opportunity to answer fifteen questions ranging from easy-peasy to difficult in pursuit of one big prize: one million dollars.

And the fellow who hosts this program on ABC is a guy who has been around for a number of years. Hard to believe that on that same ABC network forty years ago, he was the sidekick on Joey Bishop's late-night...

When you think of summer food, oftentimes, you typically think of a charbroiled beef patty sizzling over an open flame. And that sounds pretty good when I am thinking about it, be it on a toasted hamburger bun with mustard, or all by itself with a heaping scoop of onion and mushroom gravy.

But summer is also the season for all things chilled, too. Such was the case when I got three things from Market Street that intrigue me. They just taste really good together...