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“There’s so much more to this than just a market” Sarah Turner, Market Manager for the CYCFM The Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market (CYCFG) is a…
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Anyone can be a writer. Really. We are all writing stories in our heads everyday anyway. All you must do to be a writer is…
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Memphis has several neighborhood schools with families living within a mile or two of the building. For these families, bicycling to school can be a…
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First Time Walking a Labyrinth I didn’t anticipate that my first trip to a labyrinth would become a race between grade schoolers, but Laura McArtor,…
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Words and photographs by Ken Billett Seated on the patio at Celtic Crossing, we placed our drink orders, then sat back to enjoy a warm,…
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Germans have a word for those brief moments that prompt indescribable longing: Sehnsucht. Creatives point to music, art, and beauty as the spaces in which…
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