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Book Review — ‘Can’t Stand the Heat’
Features Comments May 14, 2013 6:34pmSometimes, your entire life feels like a recipe for drama.
Oh, you really hate it and you’d like to wipe your plate clean of it all, but that’s never gonna happen. No matter what’s cooking...
From Lallah’s GardenAllergies can be overcome naturally
Living Green Comments May 02, 2013 12:10amAllergies, what is an allergy? Webster’s dictionary says, “an allergy is an abnormal reaction to a substance.” The substance is usually natural like pollen, wheat, milk; the list is long.
It...
Book Review — ‘Kid Pickers: How to Turn Junk into Treasure’ by Mike Wolfe with Lily Sprengelmeyer
Features Comments Apr 29, 2013 5:50pmIt was just about the coolest thing you’d ever seen.
Most people might’ve described the old bottle as garbage. True, it was dirty and half-sticking out of the ground. Yes, it was junk. But...
Movie Review — ‘Pain & Gain’
Features Comments Apr 26, 2013 3:02pmThe only muscles they never exercised were their brains.
OK, fine. The brain’s technically an organ. But it’s not like the members of the Sun Gym Gang would know the difference.
The...
Allergy season has arrived
Features Comments Apr 24, 2013 5:35pmDione Henry, RN,
Ozark Health Home Care
Approximately one in five people are affected by some type of allergy.The most common allergens are pollen, dust, mold/mildew, and animal saliva...
Book Review — ‘I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids’
Features Comments Apr 22, 2013 3:57pmThis week, two of your friends broke the news: they’re pregnant.
One’s due in October, the other in November. Heavy sigh.
It’s not exactly that you’re anti-kid. No, you like kids … as...
Book Review — ‘Orphan Train’ by Christina Baker Kline
Features Comments Apr 20, 2013 6:00amYour memories could fill a thousand scrapbooks.
On this page here, you’d glue that first-day-of-school smell. If you could, you’d paste the sound of your father coming home from work. Your...
Movie Review — ‘Oblivion’ a fun blast of sci-fi cinema, just as long as you don’t overanalyze its plot
Features Comments Apr 19, 2013 3:54pmYou don’t go to Tom Cruise movies to think.
You go for the swagger and the fisticuffs. For the life-endangering stunts most viewers will just assume were computer-generated. And to bask in...
Movie Review — ‘42’ should have been a home run but comes up short
Features Comments Apr 12, 2013 5:26pmGiven the game’s inherent poetry, it’s nearly impossible to make a bad baseball movie.
How difficult is it? Think pitching a perfect game.
In the World Series.
For the Cubs.
...
Stratford Hall alive with history
Features Comments Apr 10, 2013 7:00amSTRATFORD, Va. — The stately Virginia plantation home Stratford Hall is silent on a Sunday morning. Unless you are listening to the spirits of history.
It’s the history of Robert E. Lee, who...