Features
- No-cook cooking
- Five cool-down dishes that don’t require flame, oven or stovetop
- By Cathy Thomas/Freedom News Service
- You know they are coming. Those scalding summer days, so heavy with heat that even sundown offers little relief. Summer brings evenings in which even the most dedicated foodie quivers at the mere thought of firing up the stove.
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- Books that encourage kids to be themselves
- Explore individuality with today’s titles
- Story and photos by Kendal A. Rautzhan/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Children spend a lot of their youth being told what to do and not to do, how to act, what to think and the difference between right and wrong. Some of that is good. Some of it is not.
Ironically, despite the claim that human beings encourage individuality,... Full story
- Keepers of the faith
- Women who work to become nuns
- By Mark Barna/Freedom News Service
- Giving up the pleasures of this world for a life of prayer, silence and communal living is rare.
Yet women do choose the narrow path and walk away from their careers, independence and material possessions to become Benedictine sisters.
After six years... Full story