I mentioned in last week’s column that my parents knew Brother André when he visited the farm in Gabriels owned by the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. It was managed by my father Dennis, and along with my five siblings, we were all born in that farm house. Brother André’s visits ...

Parents have recently been serving up lots of questions regarding their child’s nutrition based on more fiction than facts. This week I thought I would do some myth-busting of some common nutritional myths. - Popular myths - Is taking a daily multivitamin giving your child all ...

While there’s no shortage of Homo Sapiens (in fact, I can easily be convinced we’re a global blight) I think I qualify for the Endangered Species List. Or maybe more exactly, the Endangered SUB-Species List. And what, pray tell, is my sub-species? It is Homo Sapien Lector Obsessus. Or in ...

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou At 6:30 p.m., it was 88 degrees, with a two-hour wait — just another Thursday night at Casa del Sol. Dermott Morgan was spinning tales and pushing margaritas while I ran food, and Jay Fogarty, with ...

Keene resident Robyn Shumer’s memoir chronicles her struggle with the eating disorder that surfaced in her childhood. By the time she was 8 years old in 1982, she was terrified that the scale in her doctor’s office would show her to be over 40 pounds. The New Jersey school she attended ...