Spring cleaning starting a little early
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Happy Marie Kondo season. Marie Kondo is the tiniest little Japanese woman, who is an organizing and tidying expert…….
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Wash your hands: Keeping influenza at bay
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now This past weekend, the weekend of Feb. 1, was a bit of a blur for me. It started out……
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Adults can have fun, just like kids
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now This past weekend, my son Rodger and I had our first official 4-H ceramics meeting at The Phoenix Originals……
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Newest Star Wars movie is great entertainment
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Even though I was sick on Saturday with an evil cold, my son wanted to watch the latest Star……
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Life this holiday season was a little fragile
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now The day after Christmas, which we spent in Manhattan, where my parents and sister live, I saw a bunch…
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Color outside the lines with purple donkey
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now I know I’ve written about my venture into ceramics before, and here I am doing it again. My venture…
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Trying to fight the diabetes belly fat
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Throughout much of my life, I’ve been able to eat the amount of food I’ve wanted and not gain…
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When life gives you blueberries, make poppyseed bread
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now The holidays can be a fun time, getting together with family and falling asleep on the couch after the……
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Fake Thanksgiving shopping highlights economics
Perhaps it’s worth saving a bunch of money on a turkey. Perhaps it isn’t. Depends if you have another store you want to support…….
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On being grateful for caffeinated popcorn
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now A bag of unpopped popcorn lies on my counter near the Mr. Coffee machine, a virtual morgue before it……
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