A few years ago, or maybe it was last month, I'm not sure when, actually, I first encountered the "senior discount." This discount seemed to coincide with my eligibility for AARP benefits at age 50 and, to my somewhat limited recollection, occurred at a local donut shop. Now, I'm certainly not opposed to fudging on my age, especially when it's to my benefit. This age-fudging started when I was about 12 or 13 and…

The Concord Family YMCA would like to offer everyone in the Concord community a free week pass. Come down to the front desk to receive a coupon for a free week pass for you and your whole family! Use our facility and enjoy member benefits for one week. This includes unlimited fitness classes, babysitting, open preschool gym, family swims, rock climb and much more! Offer expires Jan. 31. Sign up for an adult or family membership before Jan. 31 and receive $25 in downtown dollars! Concord Family YMCA

(Editor’s note: To those readers out there who’ve been blissfully unaware of the latest Page 2 grammar smackdown, we love you best. Please go on with your bad selves and read the rest of this publication: Leave now. Save yourselves!!!!!) It’s all Sally Helms’s fault. Sally, if you’d never written a letter to The Grammarnator (and asking US to pass it on to him, no less!), critiquing our pronoun use, among other things, we never would’ve responded to you publicly last week, and in the process acted as if we didn’t know what a pronoun was. Now, whether we were messing with your collective…

Yes, readers, it’s true! Winter Carnival, a long-standing Concord tradition, is almost here! In just a few days, you can skate and sled to your heart’s content. Before we get to the pertinent information, we should tell you that the photos you see here are from the 1895 edition of the Granite Monthly. They did a whole spread on Concord’s Winter Carnival tradition with lots of photos…

Colette Farland-Vogt of Horseshoe Pond Place Senior Resource Program kindly invited me to attend Horseshoe Pond's January birthdays celebration on Jan. 16. I accepted the invite faster than she could say "pot roast." In this economy, I can't turn down a free lunch. Once a month, the folks of Horseshoe Pond Place get together for lunch and cake (with ice cream, of course) to celebrate…

Rules of Deception Christopher Reich 2008, 388 pages Setting: Current-day Switzerland Dr. Jonathan Ransom's wife of eight years dies during an ill-fated hiking trip in the Swiss Alps. Several days after her death, Dr. Ransom gets an envelope addressed to his wife containing only two baggage claim tickets. Confused, Dr. Ransom collects the baggage, only to be attacked by two Swiss policemen. In the struggle, one of the policemen is killed, and Dr. Ransom takes off. Scared and confused, he tries to make sense of what is happening but only comes up with more questions. Why is there a foreign passport…