Withdrawing From a Coupon Haze

By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. I’m going through withdrawal. It’s not about smoking, or, heaven forbid, something more sinister, although sometimes it feels like it. It’s about coupons. For weeks—scratch that—months, leading up to Christmas, I was a coupon-clipping maniac. I scoured the newspaper, mail, internet, you name it, for any little scrap of paper that promised an additional discount on [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:34-04:00January 8th, 2013|0 Comments

A Giggle for You!

A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started."   Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"   The little silver-haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."   Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:36-04:00January 5th, 2013|0 Comments

Hyde Park Happenings

by Chrysa SmithIf you're lucky enough to live in a town with theaters that play 'arts' movies, you may have heard or seen Hyde Park on  Hudson.  In my opinion, a movie well done.In it, Bill Murray plays FDR, president on the verge of WWII. Laura Linney plays his fifth cousin and implied lover, who calms and keeps the paralyzed president at ease in his hectic and harried world. And it all happens [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:38-04:00January 3rd, 2013|0 Comments

A New Year’s Non-Resolution

By: Mary Fran Bontempo It’ resolution time again. You know, the annual New Year’s ritual whereby we all promise we’ll eat better, exercise more, be better people—in other words, lie to ourselves until February, when we’ll give up the whole charade as a lost cause, plop ourselves in front of the TV and eat a half gallon of ice cream while watching a Honey Boo Boo marathon on TLC.Unless….Unless this year is different. [...]

2018-10-30T09:48:39-04:00January 1st, 2013|0 Comments
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