Lisa Miller
- Lisa Miller
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- Saturday, July 31, 2010
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There's no multitasking while camping
I am sitting in a log cabin in the woods, soaking up the peace and quiet. We've just finished a family game of ladderball, and my husband is taking a nap while the kids play a board game with my sister at the picnic table outside.
- Saturday, July 10, 2010
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Many forget U.S. is a nation built by immigrants
I was walking with the throng after the last boom lit up the sky, listening to strains of "God Bless the USA" and thinking about what it means to be an American.
- Saturday, June 19, 2010
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Best things about having kids come with no price tags
A new government report estimates the cost of raising a kid at $222,360 — and that doesn't even include college.
- Saturday, May 29, 2010
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Feeling lost without 'Lost'
My favorite TV show of all time wrapped up its final chapter last weekend, and, unlike the show's characters, I'm having trouble moving on.
- Saturday, May 8, 2010
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Not quite ready to turn the page on book reading
In the latest chapter of a steady march toward a paperless world, Google announced this week that it will launch its own e-book store this summer.
- Saturday, April 17, 2010
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Trash burning could be smart energy source
"Don't throw your trash in my back yard, my back yard, my back yard. Don't throw your trash in my back yard "" my back yard's full."
- Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Food revolution is long overdue
Last week, I whisked cauliflower and zucchini puree into macaroni and cheese. The next day, I hid sweet potatoes, carrots and wheat germ in chicken-finger breading.
- Monday, March 15, 2010
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Scrapbooking: Crafty trip down memory lane
I was sitting at my mother's kitchen table, poring over shades of blue and trying to figure out which paper matched the graduation cap in the photo of the grinning 5-year-old holding her preschool diploma.
- Saturday, February 13, 2010
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City still has much to offer
Much has been made of Oneonta's double-whammy loss of the National Soccer Hall of Fame and Oneonta Tigers minor league baseball team. Combined with the controversy over the Foothills Performing Arts Center, these losses are disheartening.
- Saturday, January 23, 2010
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Extreme measures may be needed to get U.S. in shape
Last month, faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania amended a requirement that obese students take a fitness course to graduate, after the controversial policy was criticized as unfair, stigmatizing and possibly even unconstitutional.
- Saturday, January 2, 2010
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Technology changes meaning of connections
Ten years ago, we were breathing a sigh of relief after the Y2K doomsday scenarios did not come to pass. Many schools, businesses and agencies did invest in technology to avoid costly and inconvenient computer meltdowns, but, by and large, the new millennium arrived without incident.
- Saturday, December 12, 2009
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Experiment produces much food for thought
It's no secret that junk food is cheaper than health food, but I didn't realize how much cheaper until I read about a study on the American food dollar.
- Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Loving and living with a 6-year-old
I was scraping the last, sticky remnants of a teddy bear wallpaper border off my daughter's bedroom wall and remembering the day we put it up.
- Monday, October 12, 2009
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Happiness cannot be overrated
In the Oct. 5 edition of Newsweek, columnist Julia Baird bemoans America's "obsession with smiley-faced happiness" and poses the question, "Is this endless pursuit of happiness just making us all miserable?" Baird says studies show that Americans are no happier today than they were 30 years ago, despite steady economic growth and an increasing focus on positive thinking seen everywhere from best-selling self-help books to coffee mugs to corporate trainings.
- Saturday, September 19, 2009
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Soccer hall could use an assist
Like many who cheered from the sidelines as Oneonta embarked on its quest to become Soccertown, USA, I was surprised and disappointed by the closure of the National Soccer Hall of Fame earlier this month.
- Saturday, August 29, 2009
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Bored kids content with board games
We've shopped for sneakers and backpacks and stockpiled 15-cent notebooks and glue sticks. Now, as we count down to earlier bedtimes and new routines, my kids are getting a little stir-crazy, and I'm running out of creative responses to my 5-year-old's perpetual question: "What can I doooo?" If not for board games, we'd be climbing the walls.
- Saturday, August 8, 2009
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Obama, take time to get reform right
President Obama's commitment to health care reform was one reason he got my vote.
- Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Exploration of space more vital than ever
Forty years after the world watched Neil Armstrong take those historic first steps on the moon, space exploration has never been more important.
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Daughters share one special year
We were in the Greater Plains sixthgrade wing after school, and my 5-year-old daughter, Allie, was begging for a glimpse of her older sister’s classroom. “Please, can I see it?” she asked, tugging on my hand. “I just want to see the castle.”
- Saturday, May 9, 2009
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A daughter takes her first steps away
A 60-plus-year-old tradition continues this weekend, when more than 300 area sixth-graders _ including my oldest daughter, Abby _ travel to Washington, D.C., Arlington, Va., and Philadelphia for a four-day sightseeing tour.
