Give a farm animal a name, and, its life expectancy seems to leap to history-making proportions. It's a fact that holds true for chickens, especially once they've crossed into the Shangri-la world of schoolyard flock member and best friend to a room full of children.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. Anaïs Nin

Butter Cake with Chocolate Glaze

Butter Cake with Chocolate Glaze

Seared Steaks With Blue Cheese Butter

There's so much more now than there was--more people, more traffic, more buildings--but Glenn Arnold, 84 years old, stands on a ridge above his family's old homestead in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and can only focus on what is gone.

Skinny Chicken and Dumplings