Pass It Forward I have just read the article about our New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson, and am thankful to see such a thorough and carefully, thoughtfully written piece. I find it to be very well-written, open and fair-minded and would very much like to be able to forward it online to friends and family of mine around the country….
A Fresh Look at Classic Holiday Traditions This Christmas will be 10-month-old Meredith’s first. Her parents, Tiffany Eddy and Danny Ryan, look forward to creating holiday memories for their daughter — ones of warmth and joy — in their Goffstown home. I’m so excited about sharing Christmas with my daughter. Christmas, I think, is really about children. There are so…
Welcome to New Hampshire: Live Free or Die.” You see that sign entering the state from the south, not long before you come to the first of three toll booths between Nashua and Concord. If you really want to “live free,” stay off our turnpikes. And out of our restaurants and coffee shops. “Is this high test?” I asked the…
Ha-ne-roat Ha-lah-lu (These candles) Ah-nach-nu mad-lee-keem (that we light) Al Ha-nissim (are for the miracles) V’al ha-nif-lah-ot (the wonders) V’al ha-te’shu-ot (the salvation) V’al ha-mill-khah-mot (the battles) Sheh-ah-see-tah (that you fought) 1 Hand-wrought iron, $300; Jafar Shoja, (603) 888-0386, Nashua 2, 3 Porcelain by Eleanor Arkowitz, $80 (people); $150 (Walls of Jerusalem); custom orders, $150 (golf bags, computers, you name…
What’s for dessert this Thanksgiving? How about traditional homemade pies you can simply order and, in some cases, have delivered? While you focus on the turkey, someone else can slave over the pastry and peel all those apples. Here are a few people who make it their business to provide you with homemade pies straight from their kitchens. Allyn Way-Daly…
As winter temperatures descend and winds escalate, the salad days of patio and terrace dining give way to the cozy glow of firelight and twinkling candles. It’s the time of year for intimate dinners for two in quiet surroundings, for a touch of elegance to replace the summer’s casual cookout atmosphere. New Hampshire restaurants are up to the occasion, with…
What is an eye? A strange device, A bit of film and nerve, the first camera, A wonder steeped in mystery, Recording scenes and filing prints in cabinets of the brain. From “Windows of the Soul” by Grace Seaton Thompson Our eyes are indeed a wonder, yet often taken for granted. They shouldn’t be, for eyes are vulnerable to change….
I come from the generation that gets many of its best ideas and memories from TV. So it may not be surprising that when I think of this season, I think of John-Boy Walton and his grandpa, wearing homemade scarves to protect against the cold, venturing out into the forest to pick out and chop down the family Christmas tree….
One afternoon during my first week in New Hampshire Mahoney had called from Oklahoma and I was gazing out the back windows, describing the wilderness — the trees, the pond, the view. Suddenly I shrieked! Turkeys! Wildlife! We had actual wildlife in our back yard! A band of perhaps six wild turkeys had strolled out of the tree line, apparently…
A hurricane has brewed for two years in the worldwide Anglican Church. It has exhausted its front-page news cycle in the U.S., but has been gaining speed and power overseas and threatens to make landfall with devastating impact in the coming months. The winds of change signaled by the ordination of the first openly gay Episcopal Bishop may even be…
