The Telegram

When Patrick, William and Leo align March… the Ides, St. Patrick’s Day, the storms, the lion, and the lamb. Most of us have a love/hate relationship with the third month of the year. I will leave the topics of saints and ...

I'm a lot like Grandma: she loved winter and she liked it to stay cold until spring.  Grandma was not a fan of the “crazy ups and downs of winter,” as she called it.   When the temperatures inevitably started to ...

Did you have pancakes yesterday? I did. They were good, but how can you go wrong when you bathe them in delicious local maple syrup? Decadent, but that's what Mardi Gras is supposed to be: one last day of eating rich, fatty foods before the ...

 I am not one of those who count down to the arrival of spring: doing that can be disappointing. How many times have we made it to Valentine’s Day relatively unscathed, only to have our hearts broken in March?  Not only can we get our ...

As I get older, I find there are more and more reasons for interrupted sleep: too much caffeine, a late evening workout, a late supper, our curious cat, Dougal Archie, and so on. Since I should be able to control all of these, I only have myself ...

Last weekend I was storing away some Christmas boxes when I spotted my lovely snowshoes, neatly tucked away behind the furnace.    Meteorological winter is more than half over and I have yet to go for a walk on the freshly fallen snow. I ...

Weather lore has been around for a very long time; you’ll find fine examples scattered throughout the calendar.    When it comes to getting signals from nature, fall is the most prolific season.     I’m not sure why ...

The 12 days of Christmas is the period in Christian theology that marks the span between the birth of Christ and the coming of the magi, the three wise men.   It begins on Christmas Day and runs through Jan. 6 - the Epiphany, ...

December is half over, and winter is just a few days away; I'm not sure which of the two is scarier.   I love winter and snow so I will go with the former. My grandmother didn't embrace frozen precipitation as I do, so she was ...

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." – Chinese proverb.   I asked a lot of questions growing up; lucky for me my parents were both patient and ...