At this time of year, thoughts are focused on friends, family, giving and sharing. I would like to share my experience with individuals who have been injured, are in pain and feel as though they can never be the same again. There is a resource in Lake Placid where you can receive physical therapy treatment which goes beyond the average care delivered in many physical therapy practices. Personal Rehab is a unique practice. Its owner, Rene Smit, employs the hands-on approach to the healing of damaged muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. I suffered a nasty fall while at my summer camp in upstate New York. It resulted in a shoulder that had many fractures and broken pieces that healed into a semi-frozen state. The attending physician predicted my injury would leave me limited in both flexibility and range of motion. Indeed, four weeks of "traditional" physical therapy treatment in New York produced little change in my condition. I had used the services of Personal Rehab in the past with complete success, so my husband and I cut short our summer plans, and returned to Lake Placid. ...more

December 21, 2007

The documentary "My Kid Could Paint That" encompasses some heady topics - purity of talent, the nature of art, truth in journalism - within a deceptively simple package. ...more

November 13, 2007

Brittney Klodzinski refused to come back. The 14-year-old was scared of her mother's boyfriend, Trevor McGinty, and his violent streak that Brittney saw targeting her mother, Wendy Dusza. ...more

November 8, 2007

A 17-year-old girl in upstate New York is forced into sex by a male teacher. Instead of sympathy, the student gets harassed for causing trouble for a popular teacher, threatened and pushed around by other girls. Just six weeks before graduation, she quits school. ...more

October 26, 2007

'Bridge of Sighs,' by Richard Russo (Knopf, $27) ...more

September 30, 2007

Hovnanian Enterprises, struggling like other home builders, is offering six-figure discounts on some of its properties this weekend as it attempts to draw interest in a slumping market. ...more

September 13, 2007