It’s a whole lot of house fun this Memorial Day weekend in House to Home at the Erie Times-News. Check out my story on a $1.1 million dollar home here. Walls of windows, incredible views and a sports court! You’ll get much more with a Sassy Home article from Sabrina Fischer, terrific ideas on gardening from Sue [...]
If you wait until Memorial Day weekend to break out the whites — it’s here. And white dresses are the best. I have two, but I would like to have a little more of a tan as one of my accessories. I’m working on that right now! These dresses are from Zappos. You gotta love [...]
At left — that’s me with Mishol Randolph. We were at the Dress for Success Purse and Pearls luncheon yesterday, and Mishol, of Erie, spoke to a sellout crowd that hung on every word. At 25. Mishol recounted addictions to drugs and alcohol that started before she was a teenager and progressed to heroin. She [...]
Young people are tanning too much, and Erie’s Doreen Buckel wants to spread the word. Her 28-year-old daughter, Jennifer, lost a battle with melanoma — the potentially deadly skin cancer. Jennifer, like a lot of young women, spent time in the sun and in tanning beds. Doreen Buckel, her friends and family members lined Peach [...]
In House to Home this week, you must read the story on the Atlanta Botanical Gardens — it’s only in print so no links today. Also, Sue Scholz pays tribute to Donna Davis of the Presque Isle Garden Club. Read her story here. Check out all our stories this week: » Enter Historic Homes Contest » Homeowners want [...]
I have seen this idea in a lot of places, but the folks from Kohl’s sent me some really cute and inexpensive choices for sunglasses shapes that flatter your face for $17 and up. Here they are: If your face is round: Create contrast, wear square or rectangular frames that are slightly wider than the [...]
Last year, my team and I tracked and interviewed countless murder suspects, got the dirt on wealthy families that shaped Erie history and had a rip-roaring good time at the Watson-Curtze Mansion. I felt like I was at Downton Abbey. And you can too! It’s a real life game of Clue where actors portray the suspects [...]
As the Millcreek Township School District board rushes to hire a new superintendent — and eliminate programs and jobs to fix the $9 million hole in the budget — I want to call attention to a report on the ridiculously high salaries for superintendents. Fox News compiled a pretty good report on how school superintendents [...]
In today’s New York Times that hit homes hours ago, Angelina Jolie wrote an opinion piece that announced a medical choice that many women have chosen — a preventative mastectomy — that reduced her 87 percent chance of contracting breast cancer to less than 5 percent. The video at left is from CNN. Her mother [...]
It’s great news that Segways are coming to Presque Isle. I’ve ridden on Segways for fun during an interview with the former college president at Edinboro University (that’s me at left flitting around inside the student union building) and for even more fun when my daughter took me on a tour of Pittsburgh a few [...]