Taking health to heart
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Those looking for healthy alternatives and ways to incorporate more self care into their lives in the new year are likely to find something to …
Tagged: health
A grain of salt: The small things that keep us sane
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable …
A Grain of Salt: Our love measured in six feet
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
I was heading to a friend’s house to go for a run – one of the few socially sanctioned outings we can still cling to …
A grain of salt: The detrimental danger of goal setting
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
There’s a sort of pass/fail culture happening in, well, pretty much everything we do these days. We set lofty intentions and label them as “goals,” …
A grain of salt: Seasonal affect for the resistant
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday …
A grain of salt: The happiness project
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and …
A grain of salt: Gifting yourself down-time
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa …
Trail Dispatches: Trails for Health
By Deb Ruehle
Reader Contributor
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” …
A grain of salt: Illness is not a weakness
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Somehow, perhaps with the transition into the Industrial Revolution and hourly wages, Americans seem to have lost compassion for the unwell. Working hard for long …
A grain of salt: Getting back to the basics
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
“Do you believe in those IV infusions as a hangover cure?” a family member asked me as he loaded some hotel pancakes onto his plate. …
‘Tis the season for giving! Hit up the Parade of Trees, a Celtic Christmas show, the Annual Toy Drive Party, or take in a performance of Into the land of the Nutcracker. All happening this week! See the full list of events in the 
