Singer diagnosed withbipolar disorder wantsto take away the stigmaof having a mental illness Hours before the concert started, Demi Lovato’s fans filled a room on the second floor of the venue. In this bar-turned-conference room, they would spend the next hour hearing stories about self-worth, emotional setbacks and fresh starts.Lovato, who took her mental-health advocacy […]

If love means posting photos of your beloved on social media, then people in the Midwest and the Southeast really love their Labradors. Westerners, on the other hand, are head over heels for German shepherds. So suggests an analysis of 10 million Instagram photos posted publicly over three months in the spring and marked with […]

Not too long ago, I chaperoned my 7-year-old daughter’s end-of-the-year field trip to the beach. These outings are often a stressful time for all but the children – teachers and parent volunteers are inevitably running after kids who insist on wandering and getting wet, all the while worrying about losing one to a crashing wave […]

LISBON FALLS – As far as Ed Wagaman is concerned, it was pure magic. He had traveled to Lisbon Falls from Pennsylvania just to glory in his love for all things Moxie. But when he arrived at 2 Main St., he found the famed Moxie Store locked, dark and empty. “I grabbed the doorknob and […]

They aren’t who you think they are More than half a decade into the Brony  (and Bronycon) phenomenon, the grown men who love “My Little Pony” understand that the world remains curious about them.  Forget your 1980s flashbacks. Yes, it’s true that indirectly, this all started when the U.S. toy behemoth Hasbro birthed a new […]

Pokémon Go exploded becoming the world’s most popular mobile game almost literally overnight. But true to the “you-teach-me-and-I’ll-teach-me” ethos, the app doesn’t come with many instructions. It’s basically up to you to figure out how to play. Fortunately, none of us are playing in a vacuum: There are dozens of localized subreddits, themed Facebook groups […]

I am thankful I have a very large, blue, plastic barrel in back of the house filled with rainwater. With all this lovely, but dry weather, the garden vegetables are crying for some moisture. Anyone with a garden should definitely have such a water-filled barrel available to them, particularly if you draw water from your […]