As another growing season draws to an end, much needs to be done both in and around the garden. For me, this wasn’t one of my better harvests. Too little rain figured into this situation, for sure. The tomatoes that did grow were small, and many had blossom rot. I’ve since learned that adding calcium […]

What does your weekly menu look like? Meatloaf and mashed potatoes on Monday, baked chicken on Tuesday, and a kale and egg casserole on Wednesday? Maybe you throw in some pasta on Thursday. By Friday, you’ve lost your meal-making mojo. You’re “chopped out.” For some in our local area, the struggle to eat well is […]

It’s 10 p.m. on a Friday night in a dank dive on the Lower East Side, and I have to be up for work in seven hours. My eyelids are barely registering at half-mast, but I’m trying to stay present. My Tinder date, Dan, seems nice. He wears glasses. Sure, he’s about 20 pounds heavier […]

Nestled in the shadow of western Maine’s Streaked Mountain in South Paris stands Stoneheart Farm, where John and Doreen Simmons began “living the good life” after John hung up his stethoscope. With lots of hard work they transformed an idle farm into a vibrant and diversified one, nurturing Katahdin sheep that produce fresh lamb sold […]

Scott Taylor was the most recently hired reporter on the Sun Journal’s city staff so technically, he’s our rookie. Welcome aboard, noob! Of course, that was 15 years ago. By this point, Taylor has seen and done as much in the Twin Cities as any veteran of the news game. He’s the reporter most likely […]

Museum L-A exhibit highlights the beauty and techniques of the many bedspreads created by Bates Manufacturing Co. The topic was Bates bedspreads and their fate. Textile historian Jacqueline Field asked rhetorically, “Where did the bedspreads end up? No one wasted textiles. Cloth, in the old days, would be used until it literally fell apart. They […]

Embrace your stress. That’s the message Stanley Abbott has for students and teachers who are feeling overwhelmed and behind just a month or so into the school year.The retired Purdue University professor celebrates the upside of anxiety in his new book, “Enjoy Stress,” a 78-page tutorial on how to counter the forces that make people […]

In the 1980s, CJ Rapp created super-caffeinated Jolt Cola to give the body a charge. But tastes have changed, and today he’s offering something to calm people down: beverages with a shot of live bacterial organisms that he says help soothe stressed nerves and keep you healthy. Rapp says he’s constantly traveling to promote his […]