Aren’t you glad the Mayan calendar had a typo in it? Instead of the world ending on Dec. 21, 2012 — as predicted by Mayan chieftains centuries ago — some experts now say the Long Count calendar was off by only 5,126 years. If my math is right, the apocalypse will now occur on Dec. […]

On Saturday night, while the Wine Goddess put the finishing touches on her Italian wine-and-goodies basket for Lowell General Hospital’s annual Sun Santa fund-raising drive, I left the house at 6 p.m. to present a wine-tasting seminar to 19 Cambodian Americans. They are young college professionals, some of whom have graduated and are working as […]