As many of you may have heard, MyNBC5’s Meteorologist Tyler Jankowski has been so interested in what I have had to share on my First with Kids segments that he has decided to give up reporting the weather and apply to medical school! I, in turn, have begun to take courses in meteorology so ...

Last week, I wrote about my career in musical theater. It was as uneventful as it was short — five nights as a literal walk-on in “The Music Man.” I was in our long-gone summer theater, tooting away on my trombone, as part of the “before” group of incompetent marching band ...

Recently we celebrated the release of a new book by John Green, “Everything is Tuberculosis.” An award winning author and something of a legend with the younger crowd, John Green has come to share our obsession with TB. Each Historic Saranac Lake staff member read the book in one fell ...

“What season is this anyway?” A visitor asked me a week or so ago. It was during our cold snap that had followed a brief, glorious stint of warm weather. According to the popular meme, we’re somewhere between the Spring of Deception and the Third Winter. According to scientists, ...

I researched the proper punctuation for April Fools’ Day because one misplaced apostrophe is the difference between just one fool and countless fools. Alas, April Fools’ Day is for the masses, whether you are being the fool or the one fooling around. My children decided long ago that ...