One night last week a man was standing in front of a drug store in Lyons, Ga. It was twilight, and this man, of middle age, strongly built, in a dark suit with a soft hat pulled over one eye, delayed ...

During the summer, I love having people over to entertain. My deck isn’t the best-looking one in the world, though, so I recently started wondering about how I could make it look better before I begin ...