There are a lot of top ten lists out this week. The top ten movies, the top ten fashion faux pas, the top ten books, etc. Here's the onl...

Photo from Flickr . At this time of year I can't stop eating baked goods. I seem to have an endless capacity for sugar and fat in Decemb...

Here's a weird story I first read in Joseph Citro's great book of folklore, Passing Strange . The place: the woods of Derry, NH, a s...

Well, not quite. But she was first mentioned by Katharine Lee Bates, a Massachusetts native and Wellesley professor, in the year 1889. In he...

Tony and I recently went up to northern New Hampshire to visit family, and the trip took us through Franconia Notch near Cannon Mountain. Lu...