The Newspaper is Dead; Long Live the Newspaper By Sarah It is time for the daily newspaper as we know it to die. I say that not only as a former newspaper reporter, but also as someone who came into this world supported by a newspaperman's salary. Growing up, the Axis of Evil went something like...

It's not your hair, pal. By Lisa Daily It's obvious that I watch entirely too much TV.  I have thyroid disease (hypo) and the last 17 edge-of-my-airplane-seat-thrilling months of touring and traveling and eating crap in the rental car as I cruise around listening to the sweet sounds of...

DSTSuckkkkks! By Sarah Along with whether or not Socrates suffered from syphilis, one of the many issues my husband and I have batted back and forth in our marriage is the question of whether Benjamin Franklin invented Daylight Savings Time. The truth is - sorry, Charlie - that he DID come up with t...

I Want My YouTube! By Sarah Yesterday was a very exciting day. The new phone books arrived. Okay, so I might be a kind of Steve Martin in the Jerk, thrilled to open my mailbox where that precious package of names and numbers awaits in a thick yellow cover. My love of phone books goes right back to m...

Facebook = Timesuck By Kathy Sweeney Well, I did it.  After years of flat-out refusing to get involved, I joined Facebook.  Why?  I blame my Kennedy cousins.  That's right.  Just like when we were kids, this crew gets me in trouble.  And this time it wasn'...

The Right Not to Bear Arms by Nancy     Alas, TLC fans, there are no nude pix of me floating around the internet. And that’s a good thing in so many ways, but mostly because nude it out. (I tried to Google the supposedly racy pictures of the unlikely nudie Rachael Ray so you could g...

TART INTERRUPTION:  For those of you following the backblogger discussion, here is a photo of the emu foot my dog(s) brought home today. If you click it on you can see it full size. If this isn't an emu foot - and considering we're in the woods of Vermont, why would it be? - please lem...

  By Marcia Talley What's a mom do when her daughter has a princess fetish -- and mother knows a handsome prince is a dangerous desire? Award-winning author Marcia Talley talks about how her daughter solved this issue in today's blog. My granddaughter, Abigail, just turned three....

Stuff that is Flat Out Wrong By Kathy Sweeney First, bear with me.  Lent started this week and I am on my annual quest to quit swearing.  The first several days are a living nightmare.  But by this time of year (Lent), I really have to go cold turkey or risk dropping one of the big...

My Stimulus to the Economy by Nancy   Joe the Plumber came on a Sunday morning free of charge to look at our "basement dampness," which should have been my first clue that the economy was going to get a big stimulus.   Joe cheerfully ran his little colonoscopy camera through parts of ...