Month: November 2002

  • Learning to cook

    Ahhh, the holidays have finally arrived with the fun of cooking, baking and cleaning. Well okay, skip the cleaning, – that never even made it to my long list of favorite things to do, but baking – now that is another story. A couple years after my husband laid inexpensive tile in our first kitchen,…

  • Power naps

    The high school’s club motto: “Veni, vidi, dormivi” is close to Caesar’s victorious, “Veni, vidi, vici” – “I came, I saw, I conquered,” but no match. The Power Nap Club’s motto is Latin for, “I came, I saw, I slept.” The club is based in Greenwich High School, Conn. That is one club I actually…

  • DNA pro and con

    Life is not fair. The guilty roam the country and commit crimes for which the innocent are jailed. The fallibility of the system is personified in Ray Krone of Arizona who was twice convicted of a murder, served 10 years on death row only to be freed, an innocent man, because further evidence refuted those…