Ann Silverthorn

Today, Jim and I decided to celebrate the Fourth of July by attending the Millcreek parade, something we haven’t done since our three children were little–so the last time must have been in the nineties. Back then, it was quite a production to get three kids out of the house early enough to stake out…

Since we had actually gotten on the plane and flew to New York City, I figured this grand-prize thing wasn’t a hoax, but still, I wasn’t sure what to expect on Tuesday. Jim pointed out to me that this wasn’t going to be a concert from noon to one and an interview during the following…

Observations from Monday, June 6, 2011 Soon after Jim and I boarded our plane to Philadelphia, at a little after 11:00 a.m., I tweeted that the plane had propellors. It was a Dash 8-100/200. Propellors scare me. They look like if something went wrong, they could whip into the plane and take out a bunch…

Since we had to leave for this trip to meet Lady Gaga with very little notice, we concentrated on actually getting out of town rather than on what we would do when we got to New York City. So, we had Monday evening to do something fun before the Lady Gaga interview the next day…

This week, I entered a SiriusXM Gayle King Welcomes Lady Gaga contest and had a funny feeling that I would win. The concert is on Tuesday, June 7 in front of an intimate audience at the SiriusXM New York City studios. Things were stable at my office, so I was sure I could get away. Today, the…

So, Shaquille O’Neal has Tweeted that he’s retiring his size 23 sneakers after 19 years in the NBA. Now, how many people can say they’ve seen those shoes close-up? I can. And Shaq was in them. It was October 1999, and I was at a Santa Barbara resort for a conference, attending as an editor…

Yesterday, I had a few items to pick up at the grocery store for today’s dinner. Who wants to visit Wegmans the day before a holiday? I pictured shopping cart pile-ups, empty shelves, and much jostling to reach the potatoes, rolls, and pop that were on my list in addition to a number of other…

Posted to Suite 101 (defunct) on April 10, 2011 Italy sits at the southern end of Europe and is a peninsula, shaped like a boot. In size, it is 116,320 square miles, and it extends from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea. The largest city, and the capital of Italy, is Rome. The country also…

It’s widely accepted that stress contributes to IBS flare-ups. Can infection and stress in IBS patients also cause memory loss?

Tonight was Watson’s second appearance on Jeopardy! Watson is IBM’s new super computer experiment, designed to understand plain language and draw from its huge database to compete against the top all-time Jeopardy! champs. While Watson completely destroyed its opponents in the first game, played over two nights because of the many interruptions to bring us…