Weekend Life
Alexandra Plotz is not a veteran of the pageant circuit. She never participated in events that are featured on shows such as “Toddler’s and Tiaras.”
February 4, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.
It’s counterintuitive for me to send my 13-year-old on an 18-hour-long day trip to a ski area four hours away.
BATAVIA – Light can be interpreted in many different ways, as evidenced by the opening reception for Water Street Studios’ newest gallery, “iLLUMINATE.” The show, which drew hundreds throughout the evening Friday, will be open for visitors through May 12.
January 28, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.
It’s registration time for high school freshman-to-be, apparently. Really? But didn’t we just take down our tree? And isn’t August, when Noah begins his high school career, a long, long way off?
January 21, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.
On Sunday morning, after they’d had their fill of bacon and French toast, the conversation among my children and their friends turned to fort building. Noah and his buddy Christopher have built a snow fort at the corner of Christopher’s yard every winter since we moved to Batavia four years ago. But this year, their little sisters are entertaining their own fort fantasies. In fact, Holly and Rachel have decided to build theirs at the edge of our yard, diagonally across the street from the boys’.
With hits like “House of the Rising Sun,” and “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place,” Eric Burdon and his band The Animals helped provide a soundtrack to the 1960s.
January 14, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.
Holy smokes. I was in the process of changing my furnace filter Monday morning when the plastic wrap from the new filter was sucked right out of my hands and into the furnace. Who does that?
