"Look, mom, those clothes are in a confinement shop," my four-year-old said. My mom and I laughed. To be sure, the clothes were confined...

Boo to you. Halloween may be over, but many of us still love the thrill of a good scare. Why is it that some of us like to scare others,...

I'm the keeper of old things. Old typewriters. Bottles. Farm implements. My house is in some ways a museum of a slice of Americana. In...