Dec. 7-14: Nutcracker time, Holiday party at FDR's house, Gingerbread constructions, Make your own Chanukah gelt.

Seasonal stageworks, Vanderbilt Mansion holiday open house, elf hunt at Locust Grove

In my cancer circles, I frequently hear women lament a challenging treatment or “scanxiety,” which is nervousness or anxiety before...

Post-Thanksgiving activities to do with the kids.

All aboard the Polar Express; Mini Maker Faire in Poughkeepsie; craft your crown for Sinterklaas, and more.

Teen film fest, Victorian nutting party, pirate story, model trains, soccer youth clinic and more.

In my dying, socializing asks more of me than I can often give. Like love, death is bigger than us....

My husband estimates that my innate worth has grown 47 cents due to the three new tiny gold seeds in...

Woodstock & New Paltz vie for Halloween Central honors, trick-or-treat on campus, HalloWoodstock at the animal sanctuary, Spooktacular at the...

Candlelight Ghost Tours at Clermont, Beacon hosts pumpkin-carving marathon, Family Day at Vassar’s Lehman Loeb Art Center

When it comes to information about my condition, I don’t want story – I want science! Seeing the screen myself,...

Children’s Day at Headless Horseman, a musical round robin in Beacon, and Fall Family Fun Fest at Ashokan Center.

Making arrangements for what happens to one's body after death is difficult, but, once complete, the feeling is liberating.

Festivals at Forsyth Nature Center in Kingston and along the Wallkill in New Paltz; "What are you afraid of?"

A friend sent me this question: “What would the You of today tell the ‘pre-Head On, Heart Strong’ You? Here...

New Gustafer Yellowgold CD debuts in Woodstock; Steampunk Day at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome; tales from Hudson's crypts; “Nighttime in the...

I wonder what kinds of questions are on your mind about my Stage IV breast cancer experience: diagnoses, treatments, loss,...

Kites over the Hudson at Washington's HQ, Family Day at the Dorsky Museum, Science on the River at Norrie Point,...

“I don’t want to say the wrong thing,” people confess when I run into them in town. Or, “Don’t focus...

Dissect owl pellets at Mohonk Preserve, Meet Smokey Bear at Museum of Firefighting in Hudson, and follow Erica's cancer journey.