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Believing in the Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny used to hop through our six-room ranch back in the ’60s and ’70s, when my three children were young, just as he ...
The boys are back in the house on Stonegate Road
This is fitting I think as, “The Boys Are Back In Town” blasts from the Jeep Wrangler’s radio as we make our way to the house on ...
The opportunities in waiting to check out
After an hour or so walking the grocery store aisles and knowing you have more than the allotted 10-15 items or less for the expre ...
The greatest treason in this nation is to do nothing
Sunday morning the scene outside our kitchen window is a wonderland. Erased is the pall of winter in New England. The frigid temp ...
A holdover from childhood you can’t seem to shake
The New Yorker arrives in the mail this morning and, force of habit, I turn to Food & Drink to check out this week’s Table for ...
This must just be a tickle in my throat, right?
The night before I was to meet two friends for lunch, uncontrollable coughing forced me to leave my bed in the middle of the night ...
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Extra holiday pounds still the same-old story
By Barbara ParentHow many days has it been and how many low-cal lunches and dinners later and maybe, just maybe, there are five le ...
The magical world of color (TV)
It was the time before Netflix, Amazon Prime, Smart TVs, Showtime and HBO. It was the time our grandson Jake would call, “old fas ...
Snow falls, and spurs memories of make-believe
Watching from the kitchen window as the snow blower shoots what seems to be at least an eight foot spray of fluffy white from the ...
Searching for what has slowly slipped from us
Oprah Winfrey makes her way to the stage during the 75th annual Golden Globes Awards, and my first thought is that she looks prett ...
The ongoing challenge of recreating Mrs. Greene’s fudge
Was it Christmas 1984? Was that the year I finally got up the nerve to make Mrs. Greene’s fudge? Turned out that statement should ...
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