The most expensive things in my pantry right now are the two bags of Halloween candy. I have threatened my family with corporal punishment to anyone with the audacity to rip open its sealed container and take one of the mini candy bars. No, it’s not a bag of store samples. We are taking ...

Recently, I’ve heard of two separate incidents where a wheel had fallen off after having a tire changed. There may have been other issues at hand, but both people mentioned the need to have the lug nuts on the tires retorqued after a tire is removed and put back on. What? I’ve been driving ...

For years, there have been various incarnations of library crawls and scavenger hunts, with libraries joining forces to create ways for people to explore beyond book pages and see the extensive services they provide. In 2019, Champlain Memorial Library produced a June version of a ...

To summer tomatoes, and cucumbers, too; plump eggplants and peppers, we bid you adieu. It has been a warm fall, but October has arrived. We have had frosts. Thursday night was the coldest yet this season — just 23 degrees Farenheit. Tender summer crops — such as zucchini, ...

I recently read a copy of Joan O’Leary’s first novel, “A Killer Wedding,” after we messaged each other via social media. The last time I saw O’Leary was when she was in high school. I watched one of her GBasement Productions at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. She wrote plays and ...

I had impulsively bought a wooden Tic-Tac-Toe game set for my mother to use. The classic game was familiar to her, didn’t take long to play and she usually won. Just like my children, she would obsess about playing, pointing at which piece for me to move. I remember playing endless ...