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...that you have avoided joining the stampede of writers to New York? Did you ever consider that? Yes, but I really just like being home. I'm a huge homebody and I just love it here. New York is great to visit, but I just would never dream of moving anywhere. Anywhere. If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Lisa Scottoline | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Most of us have fond memories of Easter egg hunts. Crawling through the grass on our hands and knees, scanning under park benches for glimpses of colored plastic, being shoved by some clambering kid who stole all the eggs we had clearly seen first—yes, those were the innocent days when we didn’t know or care about the essentially pagan origins of this holy day ritual...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Hunting for Happiness in Easter Eggs | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...Yes, Iowa. Although many of the stereotypes about the Midwest are true, they rarely do justice to our progressivism—an aspect of Midwestern culture as significant as publishing newspapers with no news or responding to “thank you” with “you bet.” Every election cycle, the national media lumps Iowa together with every other so-called flyover state into a place named “the heartland” and emphasizes how strongly we believe in “family values,” which means they can count...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky | Title: Matters of the Heart(land) | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...repeat business the giveaways generate, cover the cost. "We've already paid for the Super Bowl promotion, and then some," Marchioli said on April 8, the day of the two-for-one offer. "And today is a profit-making exercise. For giving it away, do I make less margin? Yes. But I drive new traffic. And in this economy, particularly for Denny's, it's important to drive new traffic. It's about taking share that we've had over the years, and that we've let other people take from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denny's: Where the Food Is Free and Drunks Can Pee | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...Yes, the question that has defied a straight answer since the Folgate Silver Plate Company of England manufactured this strange creature in the late 1800s: Is the spork a spoon...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Spork That Over | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

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