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By RUTH SMITH

If you let the deep cold of winter keep you inside, you’ll miss out on some wonderful possibilities for exploration that don’t exist in warmer seasons, namely the opportunity to walk on water. Frozen ponds and lakes are special places to visit but...

By SOL SOLOMON

A recent news story claimed a popular homeopathic teething remedy is dangerous because it contains belladonna. On the surface, this could be alarming news. But with a little knowledge, the claim is clearly false, and the latest in a long-standing...

By DEBRA MARSHALL

I want to tell you about the time I grabbed a total stranger’s penis and held it tight.I’m a woman of a certain age, and I’ve worked in many professions. One of the first jobs I had, about a thousand years ago back in the dark ages, was in a bustling...

By GRACE MATTERN

The last time you handled a challenge well, were you called a credit to your race? When you go shopping, do store clerks watch you closely or follow you? Do you have trouble finding a hair salon nearby that knows how to style your hair? When you buy...

By WILL GRAN

About halfway through Episode 3 of Ken Burns’s epic documentary on the Vietnam War, there is a 2½-minute segment on the Marine amphibious landing and securing of a beachhead at Red Beach near Da Nang, South Vietnam, on March 8, 1965. This segment...

By DAVID SANBORN

I note that most of the letters in your Vietnam series are from people who never went to ’Nam or were rear echelon soldiers. For every 13 military personnel, only one actually fights. The others are support people.This means they get dry beds, three...

By SUSI NORD

Labor Day is a great time to think about the 21st-century workforce and how trends in the workplace affect the 669,000 of us who work in New Hampshire for our living.Conditions in the workplace touch the lives of all Americans through our interactions...

By RUTH SMITH

Spring is usually the season associated with frog calls. It’s a thrill to hear the first spring peepers and wood frogs sending their songs into the chilly April evenings, assuring us that winter is really coming to an end. But that was months ago. We...

By GLENN K. CURRIE

I am not sure when or if Bruce Currie (no relation) served in the military, but his Monitor letter of June 22 implies a knowledge that has no relationship to the actual treatment of Vietnam veterans in the period from the late 1960s to the early...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Kae Mason was asked a lot of questions last year when film crews started showing up outside her downtown hair salon.“Word got out fast,” Mason said. “Soon, all the local TV stations were calling wondering what was going on.”Mason, owner of Salon K on...

By DAVE BROWN

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – In the fall of 2002, the New England Patriots embarked on a conquest against nature. Opening a brand new stadium that many thought would never exist, and raising a championship banner that seemed even more improbable, the Patriots...

By CHUCK DOUGLAS

Recently the Monitor has published My Turns concerning the Second Amendment. I wish to join in only to amplify or clarify a few points since the debate over the “militia” continues. For openers, state law in RSA 110-B provides for the New Hampshire...

By DEBRA MARSHALL

I was talking to a nurse the other day, and we got into a long discussion of “how it used to be.” I’m a Chinese medicine practitioner, and I was raised by a man who was, among other things, an EMT.I spent a lot of time next door with his mother, my...

By JENIFER VANPELT

Among friends and family, it’s no secret that I despise summer weather. I’ll take a brisk fall day over heat and humidity any time; heck, I don’t even mind the occasional blizzard. The cool, windy weather we’ve had recently has been perfect, and I...

By RUTH SMITH

Take Me Outside: The colorful trees of spring- New Englanders have a right to brag about the fall foliage that graces our hillsides in September and October. The brilliant yellow, orange and red leaves of birches, aspen, maples and oaks are world famous for a good reason. But the vibrancy of the...