Snow Much Fun!
What fun it is to be playing in the snow. The good skiing and hiking/snowshoeing right now makes it appear that winter is here to stay. Wow, winter has arrived and calendar winter doesn’t begin…
Afghanistan; A Taliban Deal?
UNITED NATIONS- President Donald Trump put Afghanistan back in the news again after his surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops stationed in the embattled South Asian country. Besides bringing holiday cheer for American forces serving…
A Reader’s New Year’s Resolutions
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard I’m done with the usual resolutions: eat healthy, get more sleep, lose weight, de-stress. They are all good undertakings,…
Label Maker
As I grow older and life has thrown me a couple of curveballs along the way, I have found myself with no choice but to pay attention to the health choices I make. Not necessarily…
A New Hampshire Roadmap
One of the downsides to our first-in-the-nation presidential primary is the proliferation of political ads during Thanksgiving holiday football games. One of the most bizarre this year came from Democrat Tom Steyer. Steyer justified his…
UN Confab Views Global Christian Persecution
UNITED NATIONS—The stunning silence of the mainstream media which often overlooks ongoing anti-religious violence has become a sad barometer of our secular societies. Clearly, while most of the attacks are “somewhere else” be it the…
Last Minute Shopping
I won’t be shopping on Black Friday again this year. It doesn’t make much sense to me to stay up late on Thanksgiving night, after ingesting a significant amount of tryptophan, and then fight crowds…
It’s Snowtime!
We aren’t buried like we were last year at this time but we have received some natural snow. Add to that the many cold nights that have been perfect for blowing man-made snow. Now lots…
Expletive Deleted
A few weeks ago State Representative Tamara Le (D-Rockingham 31) posted to social media a profane slang for a sexual act to vent her frustration with private and religious schools (and by implication, thousands of…
How Tweet It Is
I’ve had a Twitter account for a few years now, but I don’t use it much. Twitter is part of Social Media, that oddly named phenomena where people talk to each other without actually “talking”…
Waterville Valley Hiking and Congratulations Anna
We went to the Waterville Valley Conference Center last Saturday evening for the New England Ski Museum’s annual meeting and dinner. Waterville Valley’s own Anna McInyre was awarded the The Spirit of Skiing Award. McIntyre…
Ready For The Big Day
Halloween is a lot different now than when I was a kid. Back then no one was really looking out for us. We were let loose to roam as we pleased and we were allowed…
Fabulous Fall &Waterfalls & Boulder Caves Lost River Gorge
Peak foliage is behind us now and wasn’t it grand! According to the calendar, the first day of fall was September 23rd and the first day of winter will be December 21st. As we enter…
enviroMENTALS
It would probably get a student suspended nowadays, but back when I was in middle school we used the term “mental” as an epithet for people or things we thought were stupid. “What are you,…
Tired Just Thinking About It
It is getting down to crunch time for me. I have to decide within the next few weeks whether or not I will run once again for governor of New Hampshire on the Flatlander Party…