Are you back from the Jersey Shore yet? Or Myrtle Beach? Or Ocean City? That’s where we Southwestern Pennsylvanians head for our annual pilgrimages this time of year.I’ve heard it said that Myrtle Beach is also unofficially the southernmost county of West Virginia. My completely ...
How’s your garden doing by now? We planted a garden last summer and the summer before that with varying degrees of success. The zucchini and squash vines took over everything without producing very much zucchini or squash. Our tomatoes and string beans were delicious. This year, we decided to ...
It can happen to you. Odds are it will. There I was, sitting in the dermatologist’s office getting my annual skin check. Being a fair-skinned blonde, I’ve gotten a yearly checkup for decades to make sure there’s nothing dangerous growing on my dermis.I’ve had all sorts of funny-shaped ...
Have you built your ark yet? Ripped up your swimming pool pass? Thrown your sunglasses out the window in disgust?It’s completely understandable. Somehow, we seem to have been magically transported to Seattle or London this summer, or else their weather has been transported to us. We’re ...
The quote from a former NHL goalie made me laugh so hard I nearly spit out my morning coffee: “How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?”I laughed extra hard because he could have been talking about being a meteorologist. ...
Now that Dick Tracy’s two-way wrist radio has finally become a reality, the age of “wearable technology” is upon us. I like the idea of a watch that can double as a phone and do other helpful things, but it would have to be pretty large for my middle-aged eyes to be able to read it, and ...
