Planning is already underway for the Greenfield Hill Congregational Church 75th Jubilee Dogwood Festival celebration which will be held on the church grounds on Mother's Day weekend, May 7-9, 2010.

Every three seconds someone in the world, usually a child, dies in extreme poverty from hunger or a preventable disease.

Come the morning of December 25, I will be searching under the tree for gifts—specifically for those that are gender neutral, tasteful, and wildly inappropriate. That's because I believe that just as a stranger is a friend you haven't met, a beautifully wrapped Christmas atrocity is a misfit purchase destined to be dumped on some other poor soul at my convenience.