Making a Splash

Making a Splash

AN ODE TO EARLY SPRING PUDDLE STOMPING It’s too bad I don’t have a lab coat, a monocle, or cartoonish Einstein hair because I began class on Tuesday morning with a mysterious experiment. One student tells me, “You’re like a mad scientist running tests on us.” Without...
A Wooded Path 
to Opioid Recovery

A Wooded Path 
to Opioid Recovery

HOW LIVE-EDGE FURNITURE IS HELPING PEOPLE RECOVER FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION Remember the Shel Silverstein story The Giving Tree? It’s about a tree who loves a boy. Through the years, the tree gives the boy everything she has so that he can make a new life for...
Bringing Home Charcuterie

Bringing Home Charcuterie

SOMETIMES THE BEST MEAL IS THE SIMPLEST TO PREPARE The increasing popularity of charcuterie boards comes as no surprise to anyone who grew up in a home where meals consisting of smoked and cured meats with cheese were de rigueur. My father, who hails from Lithuania,...

Editor’s Note Spring 2019

Spring is a time of mystery for folks who live in snow country. We know that each day’s weather report is a mere suggestion of possibilities and the weather will be what it will be. We remember the spring where warmth crept in as we received the just-right amount of...
Ubuhle: 
The Art of Independence

Ubuhle: 
The Art of Independence

THE LIGHT, COLOR, AND ART OF SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN AT THE CURRIER Before Ntombephi Ntobela inspired a new tradition of South African art, she was making and selling beaded jewelry to supplement the income of her husband, a migrant sugarcane cutter working on a...