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My biggest joys as an anti-domestic violence speaker

As an anti-domestic violence speaker, it is my job and my joy to help people recognize and understand the whole spectrum of intimate partner abuse. Too many people believe that abuse begins when she slaps him or he punches her, but that’s rarely where it starts. Domestic abuse that turns into physical violence is almost…

Maile Carpenter Story

Download Janine’s article about Maile Carpenter, founding executive editor of Food Network Magazine.

An Iron Will

HUNTLY, VIRGINIA – Nol Putnam forges wind from iron, his hammer metronomic at 2½ strikes a second, steel against iron against anvil. The angle of the peen and the force of his follow-through shape hot metal the way a rolling pin pushes pastry. Putnam, 80, has been creating art from iron for more than 40 years. His…

Sowing The Seeds

Tom Gallivan is shin-deep in the salty water of the Little Machipongo Inlet, so close to the Atlantic that the tides flood and recede with the pull of the moon, flushing fresh algae and phytoplankton through his oyster beds and filling the animals’ bellies. Oysters grown here, in a marsh without rocks, have a clean,…

Keepers Of History

In 1749, when most Colonists were scrabbling for the most basic food and shelter, two of Yorktown’s finest sat with elegance and understatement to have their portraits made. William Nelson was a wealthy merchant; his wife, Elizabeth, a woman of prestigious heritage. Their son Thomas would go on to sign the Declaration of Independence. The…