Feature Columnists
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Mental Wellness: Dealing with difficult people
There was a time when I really enjoyed conflict. I don’t mean between people, but I felt like social change almost always happened when people stood up for their beliefs. This also was during a period in my life when my hair was dyed like a leopard.
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Intentional Minimalist: Asparagus makes great breakfast
This recipe features local produce from 9 Bean Rows Farm and locally produced products from Leelanau Cheese.
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Intentional Minimalist: Pasta with fresh ingredients
This recipe features local produce from 9 Bean Rows Farm and locally produced products from Leelanau Cheese.
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Northern Notes: NMC nursing program seeks '63 graduates
NMC nursing program seeks 1963 graduates; successful Leelanau Christian Neighbors food drive and more
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Garret Leiva: Searching for signs of spring
My internal clock is either wound too tight or merely spring loaded. Every year — shortly after the vernal equinox — I come down with spring fever.
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Ed Hungness: The bionic man is back
Those readers who remember 1974 might recall a fictional television show titled, “The Six-Million Dollar Man.”
Continued ... - Saturday, April 27, 2013
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Mardi Link: Wishing, wanting and waiting
My husband, bless his heart, came to northern Michigan by way of Arizona, where year after year, April pretty much does what she’s told.
Continued ... - Saturday, April 20, 2013
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Mental Wellness: Taking time to hear silence
I have a hard time sitting still. When I get to work I turn on music. When I wait in line at the store, I check my phone for emails. I brainstorm new ideas for projects while I’m driving and listening to the radio. I allow myself to do this because I frame it around productivity and efficiency. In reality, I have a hard time with silence.
Continued ... - Sunday, April 14, 2013
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Marta Hepler Drahos: Library on every corner
Shortly after seeing a national broadcast about the Little Free Library movement sweeping the country, I was assigned a story on the region’s first registered Little Free Library at Spruce and Sixth Streets.
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Ed Hungness: Old friend resurfacing is sign of spring
Last fall I had a reoccurring encounter with a chipmunk who took great delight in visiting our garage on sunny afternoons.
Continued ... - Saturday, April 13, 2013
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Senior Focus: Tribute to volunteer Mike Sheehan
Populations around the world are aging, but even though there are challenges, there are also opportunities.
Continued ... - Monday, April 1, 2013
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Northern Notes: 04/01/2013
Girl Scout Troop 10037 invites the community to help them pack 1,800 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to be sent to Michigan troops serving abroad
Continued ... - Saturday, March 23, 2013
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Mental Wellness: A brain new way of thinking
A few months ago my wife noticed that our daughter would wake up when I would take a shower in the morning. Without fail, she'd almost always sleep in on the weekend and during the week would wake up when the water started pouring. I offered to take
Continued ... - Sunday, March 3, 2013
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Garret Leiva: Roulette at the gas pump
I recently committed a crime. My misdeed did not involve a felony, misdemeanor or even a civil infraction. Instead, I'm guilty of a gas gauge trip into the E. I grew up in a half-full-gas-tank family. Since turning my first ignition key, I've faithf
Continued ... - Saturday, March 2, 2013
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Mardi Link: Older and wiser? About time
When my sons were little, they were the ones who asked the questions about how our world worked, not me.
Continued ... - Sunday, February 24, 2013
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Kathy Gibbons: Some bonds bigger than life
It doesn't take a lot to get me teary eyed: NPR'S StoryCorps. A snippet of music from a certain song. Like a tropical storm, such episodes come and go -- quickly forgotten. Others? Not so much. At the recent funeral of a 92-year-old uncle by marriag
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Ed Hungness: Lesson in personal responsibility
After writing for the Record Eagle for six years, my readers know that I frequently muse on subjects of a reflective nature. When writing about life's memory-making experiences, a message sometimes sneaks into the tale. Several years ag
Continued ... - Saturday, February 23, 2013
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Mental Wellness: Finding my silver lining
I recently had someone pass an article on to me. In the article, the author wrote about how parents should not focus on their children's positive, but rather on rooting out their own negative.
Continued ... - Thursday, February 21, 2013
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Intentional Minimalist: Sandwich has heavenly sauce
This 100 percent locally sourced roasted chicken baguette sandwich is paired with winter greens and a heavenly Berry Mustard Horseradish Sauce.
Continued ... - Sunday, February 17, 2013
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Marta Hepler Drahos: Hero on way to post office
He’s on his way to the post office to mail valentine packages to our exchange daughters when my husband comes across an unlikely scene.
Continued ... - Saturday, January 26, 2013
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Mental Wellness: Co-parenting after divorce
To go from marriage to divorce is a heartbreaking struggle. Years before, two people stood in front of their friends and family committing their lives to one another, then for one reason or another, it didn't work out. Without kids, they never have to speak again.
Continued ... - Saturday, May 9, 2009
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Kathy Gibbons: Worth 1,000 words
It was my last day of restaurant ownership. I'd started the business not quite a year before, full of hopes and dreams and ideas. But as time went on, it became clear to me that I was underfunded and overtaxed -- literally and figuratively.
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On Poetry: First thought, full bloom
It's the rainy season here in Traverse City. After the winter we've had, spring makes me a little goofy, which may be why I like this poem about rain and mud and love by Paul Valery, the French poet, essayist and philosopher.
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The View from Sunnybank: Resurrection
The transformation was stunning. The long row of windows sparkled. The walls and ceiling had been scrubbed. The upholstered furniture, parked outside in fresh air, had been whacked with industrial strength rug beaters, then thoroughly vacuumed, then shampooed.
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Op-Ed: There may be hope for Detroit
The wonder of it was not that Dave Bing, basketball star-turned businessman-turned-politician, won last week's election to become Detroit's third mayor in less than eight months. The amazing thing is that Detroit had what was pretty much a normal election.
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Emma Watson Goes Pantless
IRS scandal: Republicans seek to tie Obama to agency's woes
Play of the Day: Flipping to Safety
Pregnant Kim Kardashian Squeezes Her Swollen Feet Into Stilettos
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Cindy Crawford Stuns At Cannes
Raw: Marines Come to Obama's Aid in the Rain
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Miranda Kerr Looks Sexy in a Bikini Photo Shoot
