Truly Disgusting Dog Treats: This is a piece I wrote for the Concord Monitor about the fact that pet owners are now paying big bucks for second-hand meat products.(1999, Concord Monitor)
Dandelions: This isn't really a food piece or a gardening one, but an unholy hybrid between the two that I did for the Valley News. (1999, Valley News)
Houseplants For the Cheap and Clumsy: This one really is a gardening piece, but one written by the most inept gardener in North America. (1999, Valley News)
Two Christmas pieces: I was asked to do a couple of short pieces by the Valley News in Lebanon, New Hampshire for a Christmas supplement. The assignments were to write about The History of Christmas Stockings and a personal Christmas Memory. This could have been pretty hokey, but it was actually pretty fun. I later revamped the fireplace story as an Almost Gruntled. (1999, Valley News)
Barbershop Odyssey: A piece I did for HippoPress on why its harder to find a barber than you might think. (2000, HippoPress.com)
*Census Enumeration And The Cursed Shirt: This is a piece that touches on the horrors involved in my experiences as a Census Enumerator. (2000, HippoPress.com)
Booksigning: Why science fiction booksignings are not as geeky as you'd like to think. (2000, HippoPress.com)
The Freudian Jungle of Teaching Interviews: A piece on the ins and outs of getting hired as a teacher. (2000, HippoPress.com)
JennaFest 2000: One of the most popular figures on the first "Survivor" television series was Jenna Lewis, a woman from Franklin, New Hampshire. Well, she doesn't actually live there anymore, but she did at one time, and that was good enough for her hometown, who decided to throw a festival to celebrate her notariety. HippoPress decided to devote an entire edition to covering the festivities and I wrote the cover story. This seemed like a dubious idea at best, as I had never seen the show. (2000, HippoPress.com)
Dating Miss New Hampshire: HippoPress Manchester sent me to cover the 2001 Miss New Hampshire pagent. The paper's archrival, the Union Leader has traditionally sponsored this event and emphasized that it is NOT a beauty pagent, but a scholarship program. (I've applied for many scholarships in my life and - thankfully - never had to dress in a swimsuit and high heels to do so.) I was sent to cover the pagent with the slant of taking a more personal point of view of the event. (2001, HippoPress Manchester)
Miss-Apprehensions (Dating Miss New Hampshire, Part 2): This was the follow-up to the piece I'd written on trying to date a beauty queen. (2001, HippoPress Manchester)
Oktoberfest: This was a piece I did for HippoPress Manchester which examined an important, often overlooked aspect of this time of the year - just what exactly is the relationship between Oktoberfest and balloon animals? (2001, HippoPress Manchester)
Karaoke: This was part of an ensemble piece that the staff of HippoPress did about different aspects of Manchester's nightlife. (2003, HippoPress Manchester)
Snorkeling the Turgid Waters of the Merrimack: This is an exploration of the major river that runs through Manchester from an unusual perspective. (2003, HippoPress Manchester)
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