Eating dinner, on a dining room table, together, is for many couples no longer as ubiquitous as it might have been just a few decades ago. Faster living, mass-produced food that takes three minutes on high to cook and our slight dependency on media makes the couch or the desk in front of a screen a more desired setting for the evening meal. Staring into the blue light at people who we don't sincerely care about while the people who matter most sit along side us to make minimal eye contact and single line comments on the day's experience and what is on the screen before them.

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes; thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies. - Lord Byron

The day is here. We are rushing to our nearest Barnes & Noble to see the newsstand debut of our premiere issue, The Homecoming Issue. I am headed to Alabama hoping to find a copy with my Granny in my hometown, for which Cottage Hill is named. Ajenda (Brand Relations) is in Houston and Abby (Creative Assistant) is off to LA. We cannot wait to see where you find Cottage Hill!