Offers advice on planning menus and table setting for different types of parties, including Texas barbecues, skating parties, and country picnics.

Twenty-three party themes for all seasons and occasions. Each party plan tells how to do it, gives food suggestions with recipes, reproducible party game papers, checklists and invitations.

Good Housekeeping takes the “luck” out of potluck with ten delicious seasonal menus that are always good to go! From hearty chili for Super Bowl Sunday to Syrupy Banana-Nut Overnight French Toast to sweeten up a Mothers Day brunch, these triple-tested dishes will be the star of any gathering. Advice on selecting a site, assigning dishes, and transporting your food makes it a cinch to throw a fabulous, affordable shindig! Festive menus include: Mothers Day Brunch * Potluck Patio Party * Family Reunion Picnic * Neighborhood Fourth of July Fun * Dinner on the Lawn Picnic * Fall Tailgate Party * Day After Thanksgiving Dinner Party * New Years Eve Potluck Party * Super Bowl Shindig * Midwinter Blues Bash

10 stories about odd encounters and personal exploration: A young man in search of meaning connects with his dead girlfriend's son. A group of men in Wisconsin start a poetry group while waiting for their favorite bar to be rebuilt. A woman discovers her husband has been hiding a secret. He also wants to rob a bank. A basketball player continually relives the last six seconds of his worst game. An amateur chess player encounters greatness. A girl attempts to leave a small town. But before she goes, she learns the story of one who stayed.