HALFBAKED N’ BOTHERED: BIG BANG THEORY. BY MARGARET BAKER

I knew we had turned a corner when I heard a chh chh instead of a pow pow. I had been teaching drama for years and was accustomed to children picking up a stick, a pencil or even their finger and pointing it like a gun and saying bang. When sometime in the mid 90s […]

DEAR FUTURE DOC: I HAVE A SORE SHOULDER BLADE. PLEASE HELP!

Dear Future Doc, In the past few weeks, I’ve been experiencing soreness in my shoulder blade area around my scapula. In an at home attempt to fix the ache I’ve exercised the shoulder blade area more regularly through strength training (pushups, planks) and stretching. I’m not sure why it’s not getting any better and maybe […]

ARTS BEAT: ONE PERSON’S TRASH. BY RYAN FERREBEE

We’ve all been there, most of us in our youth—pulling pots and pans out of mom’s cabinets to make drum sets, using mud and fresh berry juice to make paintings, woefully wailing as we pull something discarded out of the trashcan because it can still be refashioned into something beautiful. “Why would you throw this […]