by Eric Pinder | Apr 22, 2019 | In Print
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...
by Amy Mitchell | Apr 22, 2019 | Home & Garden, In Print
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...
by Shanti Douglas | Apr 22, 2019 | Health & Wellness, In Print
NEGATIVE EMOTIONS LIKE GUILT AND SHAME DON’T LEAD TO CHANGE AND APPRECIATION When you look in a full-length mirror, what do you see? Are you inspired, encouraged, and appreciative, even if your reflection doesn’t match your desired state? Maybe you smile and...
by Jennifer Spellicy | Apr 22, 2019 | Food & Drink, In Print
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,...
by James Buchanan | Apr 22, 2019 | In Print
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...
by Nick Stoico | Apr 22, 2019 | Arts, In Print
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...