Standing in a checkout line on a recent trip to my local grocery store got my old brain churning and thinking about life long before bar codes, scanners, and charge cards. I recall the days when we would shop at a much smaller store, as there were no mega-stores, warehouse stores or super ...
Last week, we joined with millions of other sports fans in watching Serena Williams play the final match of her dazzling tennis career at the US Open. We ooh’d and ahh’d as she served up eleven aces to her opponent’s three, adding to her record stockpile of 4,131 acessince 2008 alone. ...
Each year around this time, a significant portion of my fellow Nashua baby boomers had already cleared that first-day-of-school hurdle – the day pretty much all kids habitually dread for no good reason other than being told to switch to long pants, dresses and socks and sneakers – and were ...
A long time ago, the citizens of New Hampshire chose who they wanted to represent them. The state’s people have always had an appetite for retail politics with handshakes, street walks and questions answered while looking at the candidate’s eyes. Retail politics is still practiced with ...
Today, you and your loved ones might be shopping for back-to-school supplies or gathering for your annual barbeque. While you’re out shopping, consider all the workers in your state that make your day possible -- the clerks, shelf stockers, truck drivers, factory workers, and others -- and ...
Ask any parent who has experienced that hectic, stressful and often emotional stage of life known in medical and psychiatric circles as “planning my kid’s wedding” should be grateful they didn’t have to fulfill that obligation in one tiny corner of the world a century ago. For ...
