• Crystalize Your Thoughts

    by Anna DesLauriers While things like medication, eating well, and exercising are known for helping to maintain or improve our general health, Eastern practices have been around for many years and have many benefits. Meditation and yoga have become popular in Western culture, but crystals and herbs can help our health as well. Each crystal… Read more

  • Peace in the Panic

    by Krista Nadeau  Breathlessness, racing heart, sweaty palms— it was a heart attack, for sure. After a call to 911, the ambulance came. Dean, the EMT, was very calm. I left my house on a stretcher heading for the hospital.  “I think I’m okay now,” I said, halfway to Maine Medical Center.  “We have to… Read more

  • What is Emotional Agility?

    by Krista Nadeau  Life has been perfect. That is something very few, if any, people can say. Life certainly doesn’t always go as planned, but it does equip us with many feelings as we navigate its meandering journey. Happiness, sadness, anger, joy, frustration, grief… and on and on the list goes. Sometimes, response to these… Read more

  • Show What You Grow

    Story & Photo by Krista Nadeau  One of the keys to good health is good food. The question is whether we have access to this good food—most will say they do if they eat vegetables and fruits. But our food is not the same nutritionally as it was even a decade ago. By the time… Read more

  • Steak-Out: Story of a Lost Flame

    Steak-Out: Story of a Lost Flame

    by Clayton Hoyle It was a cool, early October evening. Armando Cresta and his friends were chilling and grilling some wings in the SMCC parking lot. “After a night of cooking chicken wings we kept the grill out so it could cool down,” he said. Cresta had gotten up early the next day for class… Read more

  • Health On The Farm

    by Alexandra Griffin Hay Baling. My mom, Lisa Griffin, doing a power stance. Photo by: Alexandra Griffin WALL-E, an animated movie from 2008, depicts a robot that goes on a space journey to decide the fate of all living things. In one scene, WALL-E sees a room full of overweight people lounging in floating chairs.… Read more