Archives: April 2009

Smile Pretty

Healthy teeth and gums make you look good – and feel good Maybe you’ve been too busy to make it to your dental cleaning appointments. And sometimes, at the end of a tough day, you just can’t muster the energy to floss your teeth. Well, roll the dice if you must, but know that mounting evidence supports a link between…

Secret Garden

A Concord garden is transformed into a perfect area for outdoor entertaining. Sometimes beauty can be found in unexpected places and magic can be made from the most mundane. Magic is certainly the word that comes to mind when discovering this secret garden, tucked away just out of plain sight in downtown Concord. For Barbara Jobin the real magic of…

Server Beware

… there’s a thing or two you need to know We should begin at the ending, when our waitress at one of New Hampshire’s fine dining establishments recently brought us the check and informed us that “doggie bags” were illegal. Illegal? In New Hampshire, or everywhere? If I know my state, it’s because of a law that either began or…

A Renegade Spirit

If it’s a quick read you want, this isn’t the book for you. If you want a book that you can ponder, absorb and marvel at, then this is the one. It’s no surprise that “The Renegade” by Charles Simic is such a stunning book — he is, after all, an acclaimed poet (worthy enough to have been chosen U.S….