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Butterface

My niece Kate and I have a running joke on when either of us sees someone who has a nice body but a rather unattractive face. She’d say, “That guy had an awesome bod, buttah face. . .” Translated, that’s butterface. You get the idea. It’s obviously gender neutral. And the ...

An innovative approach to helping with food insecurity

This is a very exciting week for us at United Way, as we passed the 10,000 mark for people who have been able to gain access to healthy produce and protein as part of our Mobile / Pop-Up Pantry Collaborative Program! This program, which was the brainchild of my friend Michael Reinke from the ...

Support public policy to prevent N.H.’s No. 1 killer

Too many Granite Staters have experienced first-hand the ravages of cancer. Despite the many incredible advances in medical science, cancer continues to cause tremendous tragedy and the loss of life. In fact, it is the leading cause of death in New Hampshire. Which is why one of my main ...

Looking back at yesterday’s media, both local and not so local

When we think of media today, we might think of media used to process data on a desktop computer or laptop. While listening to the radio recently, my thoughts turned not to that genre of media (although my wife and I did briefly have a flashback about floppy discs, those flexible plastic disks ...

Tex, Minnie and Crystal

After about 600 columns shared here over 17 years, I don’t have to tell you that I’m a quirky guy. Have I ever confessed in these years that I’m a sucker for those Time-Life TV infomercials? You know the ones. You get 15 CDs for 19-dollars a month forever, that also doubles as a reverse ...

Geriatric Millennials

I recently learned of this term, and with a little simple math, made the determination that this makes me an Infantile Baby Boomer. I was the last of the Baby Boomers, having been born in 1964. Technically, Baby Boomers are the post-WW II generation, born between 1946 and 1964, and was named ...