Archives: March 2010

Writers' Guidelines

Our editorial calendar, which includes our monthly and seasonal themes, is available here. Articles typically run 1200 to 2000 words and we feature lifestyle, home, cuisine, adventures and other compelling topics of NH human interest. Last Laugh and Capitol Offenses departments run under 600 words. We purchase the right to take works that appear in our magazine and reuse them…

Wedding Gift-Giving Guidelines

About the Author Whether you’re planning a wedding, or attending one, gift-giving plays an important role in the “big day.” Here are some guidelines to help answer some questions on this part of the wedding process. FOR THE WEDDING GUEST So you’ve been invited to a wedding? Are you wondering what to do about the somewhat obligatory gift? Most brides…

Seven Tips for Choosing a Maid of Honor

About the Author Choosing your Maid of Honor isn’t as simple as it looks. Nowhere else in your wedding planning is it easier for vexing problems to turn up! Why? Because the Maid of Honor’s duties are often vaguely defined, and worse, poorly communicated. In fact, every bride has her own unique idea of what a Maid of Honor should…

A new attitude

Whether it’s lifestyle or looks, no matter how much we want to change it’s easy to be stuck in a rut. but what might happen if a team of experts focused their attention on someone who needed a little push? We looked around and our gaze settled on a co-worker – Kelly Sousa, a graphic artist and mother of three….

Fresh food – real folks

You can just tell. The tomato skin is vibrant red, the corn husk isn’t dry, the cucumbers aren’t shiny – the vegetables were locally grown. They may not be perfect – a little spot here and there – but they taste a lot better and are healthier for you – and for your community.

A Sophisticated Seaside Makeover

What better way to give your home a fresh look than to invite a show house committee (with an army of designers) to have their way with every room? Abigail and Peter Douris did just that with their seaside cottage. It was this year’s York Show House.

Choosing a Wedding Date – When You’re Feeling Indecisive

About the Author He – or she – proposed, and you answered in the affirmative. Congratulations! Now’s the time to bask in the romance, and enjoy the first phase of your new life together. But soon, you’ll need a response for that timeless question: “when’s the wedding?” For some couples, it’s easy – they know just when they want to…

UpFront

Sarah Hale’s Thanksgiving Wish Consecrate the day to benevolence of action, by sending good gifts to the poor, and doing those deeds of charity that will, for one day, make every American home the place of plenty and rejoicing. These seasons of refreshing are of inestimable advantage to the popular heart; and, if rightly managed, will greatly aid and strengthen…

Your Government at Work

I woke up this morning and the newspaper was still filled with the same old stuff. Iraq was in turmoil, New Orleans was a pile of rubble and the levee around the Federal Treasury had been breached from so many directions that it will probably still be flooded with red ink even after they get my next tax payment. It…