Every time I turn on the television, or read a newspaper, I find myself getting depressed.  Obviously, with our global economic woes, it's hard to find much to be happy about.  Closer to home, departmental budget cuts and salary freezes aren't fun either. I know I get 'down in the dumps' very quic...

Recently, I erupted into writhing, shuddering paroxysms of joy right in the middle of the frozen food aisle at the supermarket, all due to the appearance on the shelves of some new President's Choice Blue Menu products. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating, but only a little. I swear my panties were at least ...

Did you know your neighborhood pool might be turned into a spray-park or CLOSED FOREVER?  Attend a public hearing to demand your neighborhood pool in Worcester.  The meeting for Beaver Brook Park will be Monday, March 9 at 36 Mann Street at Beaver Brook Community House at 6pm.  The meeting for Cr...

March 7, 2009 will be the 19th anniversary of a tragic fire that took placeat 21 Florence Street in which four people perished.  Each year on March 7ththe Main South Alliance for Public Safety commemorates not only thisterrible disaster but all fire-related deaths since 1986.  The large blackgrani...

  Hi all! I'm in a good mood today :)  Lately, I feel like my stamping mojo is kicking into gear.  Sometimes I got nothin' and then other days everything seems to flow.  You just never know.  I made this card for the Paper Garden Projects, Week 1 Humorous Card C...

So I rented a lens from the camera store this past weekend...took these next 2 photos right here at good ole Beaver Lake: some Canadian Geese:   and yes, even a Bald Eagle (taken about a mile east of here, toward the Missouri River)   Yes, he's a bit blurry, totally taken off guard s...

There's one little thing you all should know about me: I am, first and foremost, an Internet whore. If I were banished to a desert island and could only take one thing with me, I would choose my laptop over sunscreen, tampons, and even beer. (That is, assuming this particular island has Wi-Fi, which...

A few years ago, I had a co-worker who was (and is) a knitting evangalist. She taught me, and anyone else she could corner, how to knit and purl. Since then, I have rarely been seen without some kind of project in my handbag. The knitting and crochet revolution that's been happening in the US and el...

So, I haven't had much to say lately about food, and since this is ostensibly a food blog, I really should say something victual-related before Foodbuzz drops my sorry ass, so here goes... I don't often buy canned soup. I am normally a soup making MACHINE, and I love nothing more than spending the a...

If wishing could make it true, then those low-carb, eat-all-the- bacon-and-steak-you-want diets would work. Or the 500-smoothies diet would work. Etc., etc. But in what is being called the most rigorous and far-reaching study of various diet schemes, scientists have found -- once again -- that dieti...