My passion for authentic Italian cuisine and the ingredients necessary to make it happen took me to many towns, farms, supermarkets, restaurants, and delicatessens in Italy to experience various gastronomic delights. The best of many wonderful discoveries were the two best brands—the kings—of prosciutto.
Renewal brings hope. Each spring and summer, as life renews itself and flourishes, perhaps you also feel renewed; you have more clarity and focus as the energy of nature feeds you. I hope you wake, look at the world with awe and wonder, and feel a renewed sense of your purpose in each day.
Patrick Stephens is a videographer whose innate talent takes audiences, and individual viewers, on a journey beyond where they expect to go. His work with film creates more than a movie—he makes memories to treasure forever.
There is an idiom from the 1500s many people have heard and believe: “You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” Making something attractive out of something repulsive may not be as difficult as it used to be. In times of chaos, when what was familiar is now unknown, people reevaluate their lives through the new choices they must make.
The Prescott, AZ City Council voted on April 27th, 2021, to recognize Frank's many contributions by declaring May 1st Frank Shankwitz Day. Local organizers expect hundreds of motorcyclists and visitors to gather in Prescott, AZ on May 1st to honor the life of one of the “10 Most Amazing Arizonans”, Frank Shankwitz, a Creator and Co-Founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation who recently passed.
Over a century ago, Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper editor Tess Flanders is credited with the observation that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” In 1985, Rob Angel wrote a list of 5,018 words to create a board game that involves the drawing of pictures. If Ms. Flanders were alive today, she’d relish writing a review for the book that defines everything about Pictionary.
Nonverbal communication is considered both the spoken and written word. The way you hold your hands in a conversation reveals more about your intention than you realize.
One Helluva Ride...Bikers from all over, celebrities, and former Wish Kids uniting on May 1st to celebrate the remarkable life of Make-A-Wish founder Frank Shankwitz
Home is supposed to be where the heart is, but unfortunately, there are as many broken hearts as there are broken homes. That’s true when people are healthy, but when a pandemic requires women and children to shelter at home, the meaning of that activity is not consistent. When families are in strife and crisis, women and children all over the world seek shelter away from their homes.
It happened on a July day in 2012. Laura Speaks Perez recalls the terrifying moment: “We were frozen in shock. We put our 3-week old baby in God’s hands.” She and her husband, Beto, learned their daughter Bela had a particularly deadly form of cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
A great question we can all ask ourselves is this: “What is the color of love?” Is love black, white, brown, or some other color? At this point I have to say that I don’t know what color love is because to me it looks like many different colors. One thing I do know with certainty, and have experienced personally, is that love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe to transform lives.
While I was absent-mindedly perusing the vinyl records at a local shop, a familiar phrase jumped out at me, along with the visage of a lost rock ‘n roll hero: “No One Sings Like You Anymore”, a famous line of the late, great musician Chris Cornell.