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Local author pens kids book with a message
A local educator believes that happiness can be taught and has written a children's book to illustrate it. “Your Leaves Are Pretty” by Joanne Jeffers Veeck, of Loomis, is the story of a group of trees living in Capitol Park, in Sacramento. The educational story was written for children as young as seven and combines botany and agricultural facts with a fun and heartwarming story about tree characters that have been transplanted to a new and daunting environment. The story’s underlying message is…
Ageless beauty in an olive tree
Sometimes it takes something old to bring new landscaping to life. Planting century-old olive trees at a home in Granite Bay created that transformation. “It changed it from a big house sitting on a lot with more modern landscaping into a feeling like you are actually in Tuscany — like you are in an Old World house,” Dave Bushnell, owner of Bushnell Gardens Nursery, said recently. The trees, taken from an orchard near Corning, have a uniqueness that develops only through long years…
What Happens to Art When GIFs Rule the Living Room?
When it's possible to frame images from the Internet on a wall, people go for subtle and silly works of art.
Living In This Neighborhood Could Be Good For Your Love Life
Where you call home affect your love life. Streeteasy and relationship app Hinge teamed up to determine how your zip code influences your relationship status.
Is the buyback surge over? Don't bet on it
Corporations are using their cash for more than just buybacks. Whether they should devote even more of it to other endeavors is a worthy discussion.
The ‘Most Dangerous and Volatile’ Place in the World
Kashmiri artists process the trauma of living in the world’s most militarized zone.
Living With Face Blindness
Prosopagnosia is a condition that can make it impossible to recognize the faces of others, from friends to movie characters to parents. To varying degrees, it affects about two percent of people.
Underwater artist draws inspiration while diving
For Cuban artist Sandor Gonzalez, there is no better place to draw than several meters below the surface of the sea, far away from the hubbub of modern life,...
Thoughts on not solving puzzles and not crying at work
I had a Rubik’s Cube when I was a kid. You know, those twisty-turny cubes with bright, mixed-up colorful squares? The goal is to organize the cube so each side is one solid color. At 9, I would complete one side and try to solve the next, and the next, but now I know it doesn’t work that way. I know this because for the last couple of weeks it’s been my job to teach children how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. Before…
How 'Sweet' it is: Pop rock legend playing show at JJ's Bohemia
The term "legend" is used pretty loosely, but it really is a subjective adjective anyway. When it comes to music, a legend can be local, they can be genre based, or the designation could just be used to describe someone who has meant a lot to someone else for a long time.
First Things First: What to do when friends are hurting your marriage
So your wife has that one friend you think she always wants to talk about your problems with? Or your husband has a buddy that you think he wants to spend more time with than you?
Opinion: UTC course explores the origins of our fears
Is it really a mean and scary world? Or, do our media-saturated brains make us nervous Nellies?
Elton John coming back to Chattanooga
It would appear Elton John has made the UTC McKenzie Arena a regular stop.
