Brenda Butler

Special times and special people. We cherish that in our lives. To be invited, to share and then to reciprocate. That's right. It's your turn. And when the gathering's at...

Few execute the ritual of dining at the table with more relish than the French, as American expatriate Rudolph Chelminski, a resident of the city Fontainebleau outside Paris, wrote in...

In Maquoketa, Ia., a prominent London antiques dealer who had ordered several Mission-style round dining room tables from the Banowetz Antiques warehouse recently dropped in to pick up his cache....

Lesson supreme: Never leave your kids in a running car, unless they are strapped in for takeoff. Take one modern mom with two kids, two cars, a lovely home in...

It was a glittering Sunday night affair at the newly decorated Chicago Hilton that competed with the more mundane Sunday night things people do before facing the workweek, like doing...

Firecracker time again, and we like it hot. We`ve taken the temperature all over town for hot sellers now and hot prospects for later. The result: more than enough sparklers...

Final thoughts on Paris vis-a-vis Chicago. . . . After two weeks of seeing Parisians on the Faubourg Saint-Honore, the street known for its couture and classic boutiques, and also...