In a marathon meeting Tuesday evening – following the cancellation of Council’s previously scheduled meeting due to the Telegraph Fire – council discussed flood and mitigation efforts, the strategic action plan for 2023 and heard from residents before approving funding for the rehab of the long-neglected pool at the community …
Read More »Patricia Sanders
Learning to walk
Dear Graduate, The root meaning of the word graduation is to step forward. When you graduate, you’ve taken a step ahead, or up. It’s a big, meaningful step, and you’ve worked hard, so you rightfully celebrate and receive lots of congratulations, and hopefully take a vacation to recuperate. It’s funny …
Read More »Increase your EGGSpertise!
The humble egg: you might eat them every day, but how much do you know about them? To answer your questions – and probably some you never thought to ask – we got answers from Aimee Mundy of Ellison Family Farm Eggs in Miami (along with some information from trustworthy …
Read More »Tiny Things Matter Most
If the pandemic has brought one lesson home more than anything, it’s that teensy-tiny things can change the world. We’ve all had the experience of having a glochid stuck in your finger – those tiny bristles on some cacti – and how this can cause more discomfort and ruin …
Read More »The Color of Polar Bears
I read once about a psychologist who went to study people in Siberia, to find out how Siberians think. One question went like this: “In the Far North, where there is snow, all bears are white. Novaya Zembla (the name of a town) is in the Far North, and there …
Read More »The Fear Right Here
When people hear that I’ve been traveling for the past four years, they’ll usually ask me two questions. First: What’s your favorite country? I never know how to answer that one. I love them all. The second question tends to be: Weren’t you afraid? That’s easier to answer: Yes. Of …
Read More »Essential Business Lessons from Apache Skateboard Entrepreneur Douglas Miles Jr.
Douglas Miles Jr. is a professional skateboarder, owner of the film production company Indellica, and a partner and team rider of Apache Skateboards. He has produced video and photo content for Apache Skateboards and now owns and operates Indellica to help other businesses with film production and branding. He has …
Read More »Frank Balaam Paints the Luminous Forest
In south-central Utah, due east of Moab and north of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, lives one of the most remarkable creatures on Earth. From the edge of an alpine lake, a forest of quaking aspen climbs the steep angle of a hillside. A portion of this high-altitude forest – …
Read More »Good Rain
I’m in southern New Hampshire, visiting my brother at his new house – he’s just retired from the Army – and helping him put in a new vegetable garden. It’s a beautiful time to be in New Hampshire: temps are in the mid 70s to low 80s, and it rains …
Read More »Insectary Plants in the Garden: More Than Meets the Eye
Flowering plants don’t just look pretty – they can also do some serious garden work. Beautiful, aromatic blossoms attract beneficial insects – such as pollinators – to the garden. And in vegetable gardens, you can enlist flowering plants to help with pest control, either attracting predators that keep populations of …
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