When I was around 7 years old my teenage sister and her best friend allowed me to join in on their personal photo shoot. Not one to miss an opportunity, I bolted to my room and whipped on my favorite paisley dress that my grandmother had sewn for me. As cars sped down the main […]

When my publisher first asked me to write a weekly column about the bleary-eyed but abundantly blessed experience that is parenting, I was fresh off the heels of my first maternity leave. I’d been a parent a few short months, but my list of lessons already learned, pumping dysfunctions and comical adventures was absolutely endless. […]

Neckties are the fault of the Industrial Revolution. No, really, I’m serious. Cravats had been around since the first one was worn by one of the French kings named Louis, but neckties didn’t really become common fashion until a lot of men started working in factories and wanted a form of neckwear that was comfortable, […]

I n “Back to the Future Part II,” accidental time traveler Marty McFly makes a temporal leap from 1985 to 2015 – which at the time seemed like the distant future. As soon as he and mad scientist Doc Brown zip through the decades in their flying DeLorean, they emerge onto a mid-air highway choked […]

I t was another one of those moments when I had to remind myself that I no longer live in a rural woodsy place where the wildlife wandering in and out of my space was a daily occurrence. As close as I am to downtown Saco here, this place has a remarkably rural flavor to […]