As a young girl growing up in New Jersey, Linda Haering Frank asked her mother for art classes; as a teenager, she painted colorful gas tanks for Harley-Davidson motorcycles; as a young mother, she practiced her art in a tattoo parlor.
Traditional surgery to correct the potentially dangerous — and highly annoying — cloudy vision caused by cataracts is among the most effective, and the most commonly performed surgeries in the nation, but there was still significant room for improvement.
Your elderly parent is in the hospital—anxious, alone. Medical personnel come and go. When you visit, you can’t stay long because of children at home. You wish you could do more.
When we started this humble publication nearly 20 years ago, the two advertising representatives we had at the time, Sunny Gates and Ed Drondoski, and I would often meet on Friday evenings at a house I was renting on South Indian River Drive in Fort Pierce, after I had moved back to the Treasure Coast from Alabama.
At Becker Preserve, a quiet stretch of conservation land managed by the Environmental Learning Center, native swamp lilies are in full bloom, offering a rare glimpse into Florida’s wetland biodiversity.
At Becker Preserve, a quiet stretch of conservation land managed by the Environmental Learning Center, native swamp lilies are in full bloom, offering a rare glimpse into Florida’s wetland biodiversity.
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When Jim Stroscheim was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, he and his wife Deborah lived in Port Saint Lucie. “He watched TV, listened to news on his phone, and smoked cigars.
Runners talk about being “in the zone,” when everything just works. Their stride, breathing patterns and mental state are so in tune that they perform at their peak — undistracted, completely focused.
After months of sweltering afternoons, daily thunderstorms, and the hum of overworked air conditioners, fall is here to offer us a little relief. It’s still plenty hot, but it doesn’t scorch.
