Life as I know it: A modern holiday story holds many lessons

Life as I know it: A modern holiday story holds many lessons

  • BY ROB FORD Life as I know it

Without the stories, Christmas wouldn’t be half the occasion that we’ve fabricated it into these days. The holidays have a million of them; Santa stories, Scrooge stories, sacred stories and the list goes on.

Adapted in TC: Diversity and inclusiveness works

Adapted in TC: Diversity and inclusiveness works

  • BY SUSAN ODGERS Adapted in TC

In the summer of 1989, I interviewed for a teaching position at Northwestern Michigan College. In addition to the typical questions, the department head asked how I would get to work; I drove. Write on the board; I could do that or use an overhead projector. Utilize my desk; positioning it o…

Jill St. Pierre Gagnon: Strange joy comes from diagnosis

Jill St. Pierre Gagnon: Strange joy comes from diagnosis

  • By Jill St. Pierre Gagnon Special to the Record-Eagle

There has resided a demon inside of me since adolescence. It told me that I was the only one. It told me to suffer and let the despair and agony smolder inside me till the end. I was alone on a planet with millions.

Life as I know it: Talkative friends and a secret identity

Life as I know it: Talkative friends and a secret identity

  • BY ROB FORD Life As I Know It

Earlier this year, in this column, I spun a little story that included a sentence or two about a random person I know who talks a lot. The gist of what I said was that I have nothing against the things they say, but sometimes I wish that they’d say less and leave me to enjoy the quiet from t…

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Brewing up financial peace

Brewing up financial peace

  • By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com

TRAVERSE CITY — A brewer is leading a financial class in the chapel of a church.

Mental Wellness: Evaluating return on time investment

Mental Wellness: Evaluating return on time investment

  • JOE SANOK Mental Wellness

Maybe you’ve done a time study at work. Or you’ve said to yourself, “I’m only going to work on the yard for an hour, then take the kids to the beach.” Or you set a goal to work out a few times a week. Consciously or unconsciously, we often are evaluating the return on investment (ROI) for our time.

Let's talk about sex: Local church offers sex ed for young teens

Let's talk about sex: Local church offers sex ed for young teens

  • By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com

TRAVERSE CITY — The Our Whole Life (OWL) program offered this fall by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse sure ain’t your mother’s — or your father’s — sex education class.

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