By Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath, New York Times The way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work […]
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By Outdoor A recent CNN report by “Inside Man” Morgan Spurlock found that although America’s national parks drew a record 292.8 million visitors in 2014, the National Park Service is having trouble attracting young people. Spurlock reports that the number of visitors under age 15 has dropped by half in the past 10 years. Visitors […]
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The sixth annual Genoa Cowboy Festival is April 30-May 2. This year’s event will feature performances by some of the best-known entertainers in Western music and cowboy poetry, including Lacy J. Dalton, Gary Allegretto, Mike Beck, Belinda Gail, Richard Elloyan, Sourdough Slim, Larry Maurice, “Bimbo” Cheney, The Western Flyers swing band, and many more. Other festival events […]
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By Jeri Clausing, Travel Weekly At Blackberry Farm, a resort in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains, a new “Wellhouse” offers Japanese forest bathing and other “deep healing woods” activities, including in-forest yoga, meditation and endurance hikes. At the Fairmont Princess in Scottsdale, Ariz., guests can do a whole lot more than keep up with their usual workout […]
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By Michelle Fay Cortez, BloombergBusiness Bob Hemm, a 93-year-old retired chemical engineer, still drives his Mercury Milan and tutors fourth-graders in reading and math at a school near his home in Springfield, Va. Four years ago, at the cusp of 90, the widower remarried. Where does all of his energy come from? Exercise, says Hemm, […]
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“Chasing Ice” is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of the changing planet. With a band of young adventurers in tow, James Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. The film will be […]
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By Michael R. Blood and Juliet Williams, AP Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top elected officials in California acknowledge using personal email accounts to conduct government business, and it’s not clear if their private exchanges are retained as public records or subject to disclosure. An Associated Press survey of email use […]
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By Andrew Denning, Atlantic Triple gold-medalist Alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy of France, O.J. Simpson, and Chevrolet executive John Z. DeLorean sit at a table, while Hunter S. Thompson takes notes from the side of the stage. This might read as the tortuous setup to a particularly hackneyed joke, but it’s the punchline. Such was the […]
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By Marilynn Marchione, AP For years, parents of babies who seem likely to develop a peanut allergy have gone to extremes to keep them away from peanut-based foods. Now a major study suggests that is exactly the wrong thing to do. Exposing infants like these to peanuts before age 1 actually helped prevent a peanut […]
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By Kathryn Reed The importance of practicing and asking for help are the major themes of the latest Fujimini Adventure Series. Like the previous books, it is geared to preschoolers through first-graders. “Karate Kid” is what came to mind when reading “Silver Bunny and the Secret Fort Chop” by Eileen Wacker. “Wax on, wax off” […]
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