by oncapemagazine | Dec 27, 2023 | December 2015
By GAIL BLAKELY One of the most popular Christmas decorations is the gingerbread house. Quite simply, it is a model house made of gingerbread, most often decorated with a variety of candies and icing. Usually they are built by children with the help of their parents...
by oncapemagazine | Dec 27, 2023 | December 2015, Uncategorized
Many thanks to grade four students at the Oak Ridge, Bournedale, Mullen Hall and Teaticket Schools for sharing with us some of their favorite things about the December holidays. My favorite thing is that on Christmas night my mom lets me open two of her presents....
by oncapemagazine | Dec 22, 2023 | December 2015, Uncategorized
By RICH MACLONE Every couple of Christmases I will dig into the past and make my father laugh while opening up his gifts. When I was a teenager he and I would crack up while listening to Eddie Murphy wax poetic about how fathers got the short end of the stick on...
by oncapemagazine | Dec 22, 2023 | December 2015, Uncategorized
By DEBORAH G. SCANLON Considering the amount of time that most of us spend in kitchen, it would make sense that any gadget to make that time more interesting and productive would qualify as a good holiday gift. And that gadget or tool doesn’t have to break the bank....
by oncapemagazine | Dec 22, 2023 | December 2015, Uncategorized
By CHRISTINE LYNCH Something has happened in my daughter’s family playroom. She’s fortunate to have a home with a spacious area that contains most of her children’s playthings but suddenly that large open space no longer seems so large or open. Looking around the...
