Are you also the type of person who, in this age of information overload, tucks tidbits of interest into the files of your brain, i...

Living so close to the second-largest mall in New York State just makes me want to hide in the house on Black Friday.   It’s hard for m...

Now that Hurricane Sandy has passed, life is finally getting back to normal.   Our area was hit hard, but we were lucky – just a few ...

I'm getting into my zone. My new USDA hardiness zone -- 7a.   It was big news to gardeners when the USDA announced the changes ...

Did you know that there's a campaign underway to get us to stop raking up our leaves?  Rather, we're being encouraged to grind them ...

Remember my friend who has the solar-powered, automatically-watered vegetables on raised platforms on his plot in our community garden? (If ...

It's Mardi Gras. Laissez les bon temps roulez today, and let the good temps roll in, too, please. It was down to freezing again last ni...

You won’t believe what my son said when I asked him if he wanted to go outside and make a snowman with me.   “Mom, I’m not three years old a...

Just when things start to melt and we think we can come up for air we get pounded again.   The photo to the right was taken on my phone on ...