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Life, Lansdale, Montgomeryville and What Have You ...Today is Friday the 13th and an unlucky and dreaded day for friggatriskaidekaphobics and paraskevidekatriaphobics. Those are the scientific terms for people who fear Friday the 13th. I do find myself to be superstitious —I often knock on wood thrice to prevent a jinx, I get a little weird around black cats, and I don’t walk under ladders. I think I do the last one mainly because it’s a lot safer! I’ve never really been superstitious about Friday the 13th. If anything, I just know it is considered a jinx day. In the past, I have scoured calendars to see how many Friday the 13ths we get every …
Today is Mother’s Day and I wanted to take some time to tell a bit why I appreciate my mother, Diane Di Domizio. She is a hometown girl, a North Penn graduate and mother of three. She is also a caregiver, a daycare teacher, a cook, a nurse, a dog trainer, a housekeeper, an accountant, a hostess, a chauffeur, a counselor and a cheerleader. My mother is a great person, and she has always wanted the best for her children. This Mother’s Day is special: By the next Mother’s Day she will have two of three children married. Chances are it will be GRANDmother’s Day for my mom. With my sister and I …
This is why I never trust a guy in a tiny bowtie. And it doesn’t help his cause that he’s also a weatherman. On the NBC10 “Earthwatch” weather report – where’s your flashy and apocalyptic winter storm graphic? – Glenn “Don’t Trust the Bowtie” “Hurricane” “The” Schwartz said this about today’s storm: “In the morning, there could be problems on side roads, bridges and untreated road surfaces.” And this: “Sleet and snow for the morning rush.” Yeah. That’s what you said Glenn “Not the Hurricane Bob Dylan Sung About” Schwartz. I have it on my DVR, and now no weatherman or woman can go back on …
Want headlines from Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch delivered directly to your blog or Web site? Now, you can stream all the Montgomery Township and Lansdale news — or just certain categories — directly there for you and your visitors. It was one several changes made to the Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch site this past week that also includes free classified ads and a news feed from nearby Patch sites. With a new widget feature, you can create a box that's easily insertable into blogs and Web pages. It's also customizable by topic, so if you just want sports, you can limit to sports or if you …
Happy New Year to everyone and let me welcome you all, again, to the Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch. This year already started out great: new job, new look on life – and 35 hours of "The Three Stooges" on AMC. (It's a good thing I opted for that DVR) I've loved Howard, Fine and Howard and Shemp – but not so much Curly Joe DeRita or Joe Besser – since I was young. My father and I have clocked many, many hours "nyuking" it up at these vaudeville icons. So, you can imagine what my day consisted of on Jan. 1, 2011. Never before had it felt so right to be so lazy. Yet, while watching all the …
