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a musician. I’ve been playing music for years but was always painfully aware of my inadequacies. I felt like the orangutan I’d seen in a video, going through the motions of washing clothes after seeing the humans do it. ...

At the beginning of the current economic upheaval, I was forced, as were so many single women I know, to cut my expenses severely. Like other women, I realized I would need to begin by divesting myself of the household help. ...

I can’t talk now,” said my mother. “I’m on my way to your sister’s. We’re canning tomatoes.” It wasn’t a huge surprise. My younger sister is just like Martha Stewart, without the prison time.

“I am striving to live my life in a way that serves as an inspiration for others,” explains Dr. Larry Bubela of Meridian Family Chiropractic, located on Edloe.  Dr. Bubela, a U.S. military ...

She’s staring at me like I’ve just insinuated that she embodies the Antichrist. “A feminist? No, I’m not a feminist. Oh my God.” Despite the fact that my classmate just spent ...

Gracie Cavnar has experienced quite a bit in her life that lead up to launching her own non-profit organization in 2005.  From walking catwalks as a model to designing buildings and homes in architecture ...

Not long after I bought my first house, I found an old desk at a thrift store. It looked like it had come out of a hotel guest room and was destined for some sad fate. It took only a moment to decide I would be that sad fate, pay ten dollars and cart it home. ...

Fourteen leaves. That’s counting the sad ones with crinkly brown edges and the tiny ones barely curling off the stem, too young and tender to be tossed into the hurly-burly of a salad. That’s the whole of my basil harvest this season. ...

The first time my 14-year-old granddaughter turned our Toyota flatbed pickup around in the drive, the thrill of going uphill in reverse with a learner at the wheel caught me by surprise. I let out a shrill ...