Lessons from the Porch at Kenley Cove

Mary Alice Kenley names everything: Stella the new stove; Sherry, the huge houseplant in the TV room; and on and on it goes. If you can get your head around that, it's easy to see that she would name her houses. As she and her husband approached what she calls "a certain age" and decided it was time to move away from the city, they found a shabby little place on Logan Martin Lake in Alabama that they painstakingly chiseled into their sweet little spot. A friend's daughter suggested they cal...