Festivities Continue in Eaton County
By Bob Robinson
If you didn’t make the Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival last weekend, you missed a great opportunity to learn about the rich agricultural heritage of my hometown of Vermontville, Michigan.
MoJo’s Table-for-Two Reviews – 9-8
Geno’s Pizzeria
208 S. Washington Square
517-580-7124
Price Range: From $2.50/slice – $19.00 (for a pie)
Casual atmosphere with excellent customer service
Your Other 8 Hours: Discover Your Passion: What’s Your Highest and Best Use?
By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services
Live your passion. Do what you love and the money will follow. If you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like work. You’ve heard this cute advice a hundred times, but what if you have no idea what your passion is? It’s time you find out …
me2u – Said – 9-8
My momma said the phone works both ways. I am terrible at making phone calls. I sometimes am struck with extreme anxiety when I have to phone someone that I do not know well. It could take a week for me to work up enough nerve. If I make an effort to call someone and they do not call me back, as I get older it is getting easier to erase that person from my contact list.
Excuse me, Are You Listening? – 9-8
Dear Readers,
I want you to read this article by Dante Lee who is an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. He is in Ohio, we are in Michigan. The same issues impact all of us. It is always amazing to me how we can talk about what is going on all over the nation but can’t talk about what is going on in our own city.
Interpersonal EDGE: Change Boss from Superchicken to Superman!
By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
Q: My boss is a chicken and allows this one employee to walk all over him. Should I step in and tell my coworker to shape up?
Retire Smart: Economist’s Report Points to Best Job Opportunities for 50-plus Americans
By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
If you train for it, the jobs will come.
That’s the upshot of a new economic study that attempts to answer one of the toughest questions facing mid-life Americans: Will training for a new career pay off in a recession-wracked economy?
Add Color and Life with a Garden
Hummingbirds will begin arriving at feeders and gardens in Michigan in April and will leave sometime between July and October.
TMS Photo
A Young Woman’s Fight for “Life”
By Deana M. Newman, M.A., C.C.P.
Summers are generally celebrated as a time of outdoor fun, gatherings and basking in the sun. However, the summer of 2008 was an eventful season which changed the normal course for one Lansing, Michigan family leading to a tragic end.
Teen Talk : Violence
By Lynda Nguyen
All over the world teens are choosing to act irresponsibly. They tend to abuse and put others down. Why is that? Some do it for their own personal enjoyment. Others do it so they would fit in and because that’s what all their friends are doing. Peer pressure can be hard to ignore, but is this what it has really come down to?