Artist: Eric Alexandrakis Album: Terra: Music Is The Medicine Which Keeps My World Spinning In Harmony [Living With Post-Cancer Trauma Via Music’s Healing Powers]   Eric Alexandrakis has released a musical spoken word album, Terra: Music Is The Medicine Which Keeps My World Spinning In Harmony [Living With Post-Cancer Trauma Via Music’s Healing Powers].  The… Read more »

Dear Barb: My fifteen-year-old son is going to be a father again! er Three months ago his fifteen-year-old girlfriend (at the time) gave birth to a baby girl.  I am a grandmother at 35, not what I planned for my life, or my sons’ life.  In fact, I am almost finished my degree at AU,… Read more »

You’ve been assigned your first paper, and it’s 10,000 words.  Your prof stressed that the thesis statement is critical for your success and that your paper structure needs to be sound.  And she wants you to include your outline.  But you don’t even know how to write a thesis statement.  What do you do? Over… Read more »

Class discussions express as much about participant egos as they do about the topic at hand.  Professors aren’t immune from becoming over-zealous about their pet topics and students, well, even the best of us can be carried away in flights of fancy as we expound our points of view.  But where loquacity lets off real… Read more »

Artist: WOLVES AMONG US Album: Hollow Gloom Metalcore quintet, WOLVES AMONG US, is releasing their second album, Hollow Gloom, on November 19th, 2021, through Prime Collective. WOLVES AMONG US hails from Aalborg, Denmark, and are positively known and recognized for their ability to combine the heavy with the pop-ish.  “The coming album is a musical… Read more »

Nearly two years of this pandemic have come and gone and, despite what anyone says (expert or not), no one knows with certainty when this will eventually end. What we do know is that everyone’s finances have been affected—whether due to last year’s mass layoffs, supply chain disruptions, or rising inflation rates—no one has been… Read more »

Dear Barb: I recently began working in a medical office.  It is not a large office; 10 women and two men work here.  When I started, I really liked the people and the atmosphere, however things have changed.  I felt so comfortable that I shared a lot of personal details with some of the girls,… Read more »

Artist: Al Staehely Album: Post Spirit 1974-1978 Vol. 1 Texas musician, Al Staehely, is releasing his new album Post Spirit 1974-1978 Vol. 1 on October 7th, 2021.  While Staehely has played in many bands over the course of his career, this album is based on solo-recordings from his days in Los Angeles in the 1970’s. … Read more »

We watched in awe as the orb spider leapt into action.  With a start, a wasp tried to escape the web but almost instantly it found itself accosted by the spider.  Deftly holding its prey in place, the orb—bulbous with a growing egg sac in its abdomen, injected venom.  Presently, the wasp’s edginess ebbed away,… Read more »

Thanksgiving is upon us, and all the retailers have been shoving pumpkin spice everything down our throats Pumpkin season is here! Even though some were doing it as far back as June.  So is pre-Christmas, but that’s another article!  I have to come clean, I don’t like pumpkin pie, or, at least, I would choose… Read more »