Yellow Springs News Blogs Section :: Page 22

• Blog – An important chat with a Sex Coach

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanJanuary 28, 2016

  

  “I focus on getting clients to feel comfortable to talk about their sexuality.I think sexuality can be terrifying. It’s a very lonely, isolating experience to grapple with whatever concern you have, but when someone gains control over their sexuality, there is nothing more empowering. I have seen it.”

• BLOG-Go To Risotto

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 24, 2016

  

  Risotto is a beautifully flagrant dish…rice bathed in wine and as much infused goodness as its grains can possibly hold.

• BLOG— Fresh starts

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 19, 2016

  

  Are fresh starts really possible? Three weeks after the annual big one — the new door of Jan. 1 — the question seems urgent. This is the time of year when I teeter between hope and despair.

• BLOG-Tools and Treasures

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 17, 2016

  

  Practice comes before theory.

• Obscure Author Quarterly – Fent Noland, author of the Pete Whetstone letters

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanJanuary 15, 2016

  

  The following concerns the life of Charles Fenton “Fent” Mercer Noland, an Arkansas humor writer born in 1823, whose works are largely forgotten. His works are full of raucous humor, but they are also an important document of life in the Arkansas Territory and of the development of the American literary voice.

• BLOG— The radical reality of snow

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 12, 2016

  

  Snow is an artist of great attention. Overnight, it drew perfect circles on the rims of our empty flowerpots. It chalked a fat line across the pitchfork’s handle, and dusted every rusty tine.

• BLOG-Pear Plum Blueberry Pie

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 10, 2016

  

  Pear colored stoneware decorated in berry blue, Miami Valley Pottery cradles a favorite dish.

• BLOG-Stay Awake

  By Amy MagnusJanuary 3, 2016

  

  Here resolved: Be alive to joy without indulgence, zest without extravagance.

• BLOG— Another year by

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 2, 2016

  

  Time, is that you knocking? At the door this time, Time, three sharp raps from the oldest knuckles in the world. Another year by, Time? Really? Why, I remember you at last year’s door.

• BLOG-Dream, Christmas

  By Amy MagnusDecember 27, 2015

  

  My children’s anticipation reaches fever pitch in the lead up to Christmas, the holiday that most challenges our definitions of aspiration and goodness.