Every now and then, nostalgia sneaks up on me in the most unexpected places. Take, for instance, my kids' school lunch menu. Sometimes, I'll be looking at what they'll be eating that week and it ...

And here we are, in the final weeks of summer. I got home from a two-week vacation on Chincoteague Island a week ago — the weather there was unbearable. The first week had temperatures in the mid-90s ...