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THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRESS—Self-Evolvement Series By Anna Elena Berlin CPC, Experience of Life Researcher   A University of Wisconsin (Univ. of WI) at Madison study conducted in 2012 by Keller, Litzelman, and Wisk examines the relationship between participants’ stress levels, the perception that stress affects their health, and health and mortality outcomes in a

Front Row Center By Michael Warren I, ClaudiaBy Kristen ThomsonDirected by Lynn Phelan   This is the first performance that I have attended at the new Bravo! Theater on Rio Bravo, at the same location as the well-known Naked Stage. It’s a small intimate theater, where the audience sits close and can really feel the

Installing A Husband   Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and  Personal

Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “Metamorphosis”   In our time, few people, even educated ones, read short stories, because the old human need for stories is now satisfied by what we used to quaintly call “moving pictures”—abbreviated now to “movies.” Most people might be hard pressed to even remember ten short stories

Child Of The Month By Barb Corol   Meet Ismael Uriel and his infectious smile. Ismael was born August 2002 and has been with Niños Incapacitados for twelve years. Shortly after birth Ismael was diagnosed with West Syndrome which is an uncommon to rare epileptic disorder in infants, named after an English Physician. The spasms

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir: Reference to Lorin Swineheart’s article, October  2014 issue, pertaining to wolves and the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota.  Just south of Olympia, Washington is a similar place called Wolf Haven. A while back we attended something they termed a ‘howl-in.’  After dusk, and night fell, a large

Love Is Love     A poet wrote that love is gold while others say it’s blind but all I know is what I hold when you, my love, are kind. Though words are whirling in my mind words can be bought and sold and gold’s a metal that was mined and made in bricks,

The Ex By Mel Goldberg   I had no idea what prompted her to call me after twenty years. I didn’t know she had the number at the college, although I had been teaching here in Flagstaff for thirteen years. The department receptionist only said, “You’ve got a call waiting from some woman who won’t

The Dream     Homeless. Footloose. I met him quite by chance. I taught him to ride a bike, My bike, Shiny, new – white, with many gears. Wobbly, insecure, a big child, Smiling his toothless grin, Laughing his achievement.   He disappeared with my new bike. Long after, he returned, The bike now black

Calcutta—1977 By Liz Larrabee   (Three weeks and hundreds of miles from Bombay to the Bengal Bay side of India.) I had been dined in opulence at the home of a wealthy rug merchant in Delhi after I had deposited a month’s pay in the till at his shop. (The rugs, made in Pakistan as