Tri-County Parks and Trails
Adventures in Your Backyard Summer is, among other things, a chance for adventure. With the sun high and the weather warm, parks and trails in the tri-county area are opportunities just waiting to be seized. Parks across Eaton, Clinton and Ingham counties offer adventures in your own backyard. Chances to explore, learn about the history and experience what...
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Dr. Sonja Norris
Building Bridges and Impacting Young Lives Meeting Needs Walking through the hallways of Sparrow, Dr. Sonja Norris is greeted with smiles and familiar faces at every corner. She knows the place well because she is often there performing sedation dentistry on some very young patients. Dr. Norris DDS, PLLC practices general dentistry, but what sets her apart...
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Restaurant Review: Blue Gill Grill
The Blue Gill Grill is tucked away near the end of Lake Lansing Rd., right by the park. With a lighthouse entryway and other seaside elements, the establishment produces the ambience of a lakeside vacation without having to leave Mid-Michigan. From salmon to walleye, The Blue Gill Grill offers an array of seafood alongside a plethora of classic American cuisine. FOOD STARTERS There...
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Elegant Watermelon
Summer Recipes for Your Backyard Get-togethers recipes courtesy National Watermelon Promotion Board Watermelon Malibu Surf 1 serving 1 cup seedless watermelon chunks 1 cup trimmed strawberries, cut in half 1/2 cup coconut cream 1 to 2 shots spiced rum Mini watermelon wedges for garnish 1/2 cup sweetened whipped topping Blend watermelon, strawberries,...
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Smart Phone User’s Guide to Smart Banking
There are benefits to having a mobile world of information at your fingertips, including banking. Find out the best and safest methods of utilizing banking tools on your smart phone. In this day and age, it’s hard to find someone without a mobile phone attached to them like an additional appendage. Well, except for my mom, who is still holding out because...
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The Balancing Act
Work-life balance. It’s a common theme among my coaching clients and not just the harried-married working mothers. Single women long for work-life balance, as do our male counterparts. What has shifted lately is the conversation about “either work or life” to one of “integration.” How can we integrate all key roles of our lives? What follows is a...
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Back to School Packing a Healthy Lunch
For many Michigan families, the end of summer means heading back to school. The beginning of the school year brings to mind the sound of tardy bells ringing, the sight of yellow buses dropping off children for an exciting day of education and the smell of freshly sharpened number two pencils. Unfortunately, heading back to school also means the sometimes-dreaded...
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The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
A book you can get lost in this summer Lose yourself this summer in a new delightful book based on Louisa May Alcott’s life that you would swear was written by Ms. Alcott herself. Lansing area native Kelly O’Connor McNees sets her inaugural novel in the summer of 1855, when Louisa is in her early 20’s. The book opens with Louisa, her parents and three...
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Movie Review: Inception
Can you pull a brain muscle? I think I just did. Inception is a movie you should go and see with your skullcap sharpened. I, however, was not privy to such a warning. I felt about as sharp as a bowling ball. That being said, the movie is a fascinating examination of the concept of what is real and unreal, what we perceive and what we project, what is solid...
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Reader’s Lounge: Summer Reading Medley
Books For All Ages Russian Winter By Daphne Kalotay ISBN 9780062004659 $25.99 HarperCollins When reclusive, former Russian ballerina, Nina Revskaya decides to auction off her remarkable jewelry collection, she becomes overwhelmed by the memories of those she has loved and lost … memories that come flooding back to her, unbidden. The story weaves in...
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Educational Excellence: Freya Rivers
Freya Rivers began her 25 year teaching career in Louisiana in 1971 before becoming a principal in her last nine years as an educator. Within that time, Rivers worked in several schools across the country, with a desire to implant a better curriculum and turn suffering schools around . She has been quite successful. One of Rivers’ greatest personal successes...
Continue ReadingLove & War: I’ve Got This Friend
My best friend, Tina, has been doing her own online dating. We’ve talked about some of her matches and how well that’s working. She’s not what you might call “svelte” and doesn’t pretend to be into exercising on a regular, much less irregular, basis. Yet, she continues to receive profile matches with “love to exercise” or “I want my match...
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