Author: New Hampshire Magazine Staff

Mum and a Spot of Tea

An elegant way to celebrate Mother’s Day ...Struggling with what to get Mom for Mother’s Day? Maybe a little pampering over a spot of tea is in order. Taking tea in the afternoon does not have to be a pinky-in-the-air…

The Pound Sand Approach

EDITOR'S NOTE: In 2007, Gov. John Lynch signed a law prohibiting New Hampshire from participating in the federal Department of Homeland Security standards for New Hampshire driver's licenses. In 2008, with a deadline for REAL ID participation looming, state officials…

Lookin’ Good

Is there anyone over the age of 40 who hasn’t looked in the mirror and thought, “Wish I could get rid of these frown lines (or spots or furrowed brow or …). Aesthetic medicine practitioners say that your wish can…

New & Improved

Do you long for knees that do what you tell them to do, with no argument? Was a pain-free hip on your Christmas list? For your grandparents, such wishes were just that … wishes. Today these wishes can come true.…

Top Doctors 2008

We asked New Hampshire doctors who they would choose to provide for the medical needs of friends and loved ones and their choices are here in your hands. To broaden the reach of our poll, this year we list our…

Relishing Newfound Lake

You can find a bit of everything in the Newfound Lake Region. Take Exit 23 from I-93 and discover an Irish pub, Japanese teppanyaki tables, German cuisine and world-class homemade ice cream. And at the center is one of the…

The Audacity of NOPE

As we plan how we will spend our stimulus checks, the Governor, the N.H. Business and Industry Association and the N.H. Auto Dealers Association have decided, once again, to sing out of the same dog-eared hymnal. These three bastions of…

The Eyes Have It

If your eyes are functioning well, it’s easy to take good vision for granted. But that would be a mistake. As changes can occur in other systems of the body, so also can eyes sustain injury or develop problems at…

A Place to Call Your Own?

Scanning through the real estate listings can be a bit like browsing the personal ads. Those lonely, lovely properties sound attractive, but is there a match made in heaven just for you? After all, you wouldn't select your spouse based…

I Hate Town Meeting

I hate town meeting. Town meeting is a laboratory sink for psychologists. Every dreadful facet of human nature reveals itself at these gatherings. One must have the emotions of a sociopath to escape town meeting with one's soul intact. I…

Chalk Talk

During the past year, you may have noticed some of your fellow New Hampshirites wearing a button that says "Ed '08." "Ed" is short for education and the button is part of a national campaign to press this year's candidates…

Keeping the Beat

Dr. Louis Fink, medical director of the New England Heart Institute at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, recently attended a conference that brought together heart specialists from around the nation. “There were reports on cutting edge technology,” he says. “There…

Snow-free Retreat

A spa visit in the midst of winter helps you soldier on.Outside, the temperature was a windy 28 degrees, but inside the Seasons Spa at the Manor on Golden Pond in Holderness, I was basking in cozy 75-degree temperatures. Relaxing…

Candidate Cocktails

So the Red Sox won the World Series and the Patriots are on a roll. Well, lest we get too excited, there is still another high-stakes contest to settle before everyone can relax. However victorious our sports dynasties remain, there…

A Big Problem

The message is straightforward — excess weight can be deadly. It is a major risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, vascular disease and sleep apnea, even in the absence of family history and other risk factors. It adds pain and…

Getting Pumped

How Can Granite State Republicans Breathe New Life into the Grand Old Party?The political winds blow hard in a presidential election year, but for New Hampshire Republicans 2008 was a like a political twister, taking the roof off the historically…

There’s the Rub

You know, Hippocrates was a massage therapist,” says the woman who, moments before, had been gently rubbing my toes. “Sure,” I think. “And he also believed that all illness resulted from an imbalance of blood, black bile, yellow bile and…