September - October 2010 | Mother Nature, Father Time


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Cover Girl Soyon An (part one) with Susan A. Fogel & Melissa A. Bartell

September is National Sewing Month in the United States, as well as a time of seasonal shifting around the world. With that in mind, who better for a cover girl than someone who works with clothes for a living? Chances are that you don’t recognize Soyon An’s face, but if you’ve watched So You Think […]

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Man of the Moment: Clay Robeson with Melissa A. Bartell

When we asked this month’s Man of the Moment, Clay Robeson, for his “elevator speech,” he responded by telling us that if he had an old-style calling card, instead of a conventional business card, it would read, “Clay S. Robeson: Purveyor of Infinite Awesome,” and we have to agree. As an actor/writer/producer/photographer/adventurer, Clay is an […]

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Saying Good-Bye: A Portrait of Grief by Shanna Trenholm

Thursday night, July 23, 2010, at 11:15 p.m., in the company of friends and family, I said good-bye to the longest-term live-in companion I have known. Cradling my beautiful Persian cat, Murphy, in my lap, I made the difficult decision to let him pass from this realm to the next.
The week leading up to his […]

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The Au Pair Option by Elia Sheldon

When my husband and I decided that the time was right to have children, we had many discussions about which childcare option we’d select. From the beginning, we’d known that we would be a dual career family and that childcare would be something for which we’d have to budget significant sums of our income.
After […]

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