t’s going to be a very different Christmas in our home this year. First Born and The Groom will be spending their first Christmas as a married couple in their Philadelphia apartment. Second Born will be celebrating her Christmas and the end of her semester abroad in Rome with her best friend. Because Spouse is […]

They’re a funny thing, selfie sticks. With popularity growing at an exponential rate, there’s no stopping the evolution of the trendiest gadget in the snapshot market. It photographs the careful; it pokes and prods the not-so-careful. The selfie stick in action looks a little silly – even dangerous – from an onlooker’s perspective, but I’m […]

How does a tradition become tradition? Repetition seems the most obvious answer. Yet during this time of the year, when traditions can be as small as drinking a special kind of hot drink or as huge and ancient as a millennia old holiday, it does provoke thoughts of why some customs persist. Winter holidays have […]

WELLS — On Dec. 2, the Wells Ogunquit Community School District School Committee recognized several students and staff for achievement in sports and color guard. Recognized were three members of the Wells High School Color Guard Team, Adrienne Perron, Anna Libby, Mallory Cashman, and Coach Bailey Smith. The four traveled to New York City to […]

This is such a superb and original New England side dish, many of your family and friends won’t want to share, but each half is plenty for two people. Native Americans had a name for the three important vegetables they lived on and showed the new colonists how to grow. Squash, beans and corn were […]

ALFRED — Picture this: Ice covers everything, and there’s 3 feet of snow on the ground. The howling winds have finally stopped, on this fifth day of weather misery. Power is out in 80 percent of York County – which means not only are many homeowners without heat and the ability to cook foods, but […]