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Sisterhood and Community Healing

What a cold and distant place a woman must descend to in order to watch her own flesh and blood baby waste away. Recent news stories about two sisters accused of neglect and murder crippled me emotionally. How could they keep their dire circumstances hidden, and did they have anyone in their lives to save them from themselves…to save the children from them?

A grandmother? An Auntie? A sister-friend? Anyone?

Posted inCommentary & Opinion

Talking Tires

by Jackie Reid Dettloff

This year I had to be away for most of October and I missed the autumn colors. One of the first things I did after unpacking my suitcase was to head for the woods along the Beerline trail. I love the way we have a patch of forest right in our very backyard. Here in Riverwest, we don’t have to drive to find natural beauty; it is only a short walk away. . . . And then, like a tumor on the landscape, there was a huge heap of discarded tires – at least fifty dirty, scattered rings of ugly rubber. Someone had dumped them alongside the trail between Clarke and Wright Streets.

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Health, Nutrition, and Weight

by Kanika Ward, Life Science Practitioner and Natural Health Consultant

The answer to the state of your health lies within what you eat. More than 85% of all women have the “orange peel” look, also known as cellulite. Over half of all Americans are overweight. Our lifestyles have made us accustomed to eating fast foods. The fast food routine has us shoveling food into our faces in less than five minutes. This allows just enough time to make it for that one o’clock meeting.