by Richard Klin | Apr 1, 2025 | Stories
ALANA HUDSON is a bright, buoyant eighth grader who, with adult-level determination, has launched her own tradition of giving. When Alana was 8 years old, she came up with the idea — totally on her own — of donating to children in the pediatric ward during the...
by Richard Klin | Feb 26, 2025 | Feature
Anne Norwood has spent over 30 years as a nurse practitioner in pediatrics. Since she first began her medical career, pediatrics has been her overreaching goal — a calling. She has worked at Johnson Health Center since 2006, a facility that has since grown by leaps...
by Richard Klin | Feb 26, 2025 | Stories
Alice Primm’s background is in the niche specialty of faux painting, a discipline that has a long, fascinating history. Faux painting, said Primm, is quite simply “painting something to look like something it’s not.” Back in the 1700s and 1800s, many people who moved...
by Richard Klin | Dec 21, 2024 | Stories
Haven on Garland is a warm, supportive temporary residence for four Afghan women who have left that war-torn nation — with its extreme strictures on the rights of women and girls — in order to pursue their dreams of higher education. That residence is overseen by...
by Richard Klin | Jun 22, 2024 | Feature
“GIVE ME liberty or give me death.” Those words — that famous utterance of Patrick Henry in 1775 — are an enshrined part of the history of the American Revolution. If pressed, most people probably know the source of this rallying cry was Patrick Henry. And then their...