These central Illinois organizations need some extra help this holiday season. If your organization needs help you’re your list to: swhalen@illinoistimes.com Animal Protective League (APL)1001 Taintor Rd.(217) 544-7387http://www.apl-shelter.org The Animal Protective League (APL) is a private, not-for-profit animal welfare organization, funded by donations. It operates an animal shelter, a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and maintains numerous […]
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iGifts
You might be a PC, but there’s no doubt that they’re a Mac –%u202Fand nothing else with suffice. If you need the perfect –%u202Fand newest –%u202Fperipheral to plug into their fruitful life, look no further. Here are the latest Apple gadgets they’re pining for. iPhone 4SThe new iPhone 4S takes everything to the next level. […]
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Cool dish, no ice cream maker required
Growing up in the Midwest, there wasn’t a holiday that didn’t get a little merrier courtesy of a scoop of homemade ice cream. Aside from the Cool Whip-topped pumpkin variety, there wasn’t a pie baked in the twelve-month cycle that didn’t receive the hand-cranked a la mode treatment. Christmas was no exception. Sure, 12 inches […]
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Six stress-free tips for holiday entertaining
1. Stock a ’Holiday Party Pantry’Find a place in your home (a cupboard, closet, or a few shelves) where you can collect basic elements to help you pull together a great celebration, even at the last minute. Think platters and large serving bowls for a start, often on sale before the season. Then add colorful […]
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Acorn-planting day at Lincoln Memorial Garden
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If one acorn can create a thousand forests, Springfield’s Harriet Knudson had enough acorns in 1936 for a million forests. “There were so many that I had to put them out on the back porch. There wasn’t room for them in […]
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Flee circus
I have a good relationship with my boyfriend of a year except for how he ignores me when he’s stressed. The first time this happened, he disappeared for a week and didn’t respond to texts or voice mails. He later explained he’d been swamped with work and apologized repeatedly. Last weekend, he again disappeared for […]
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Whiff the wrong man
I admire that you often add research to your columns, so I thought I’d ask you about an article I read on birth control pills. Apparently, taking the pill can cause the “wrong” man to smell good to you — a man you might not be into once you’re off the pill. Unfortunately, I experience […]
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Rounding out her career
Jacqueline Jackson still tends a herd of cows but nowadays they’re figurines on her mantle. Raised on the Dougan Guernsey Dairy Farm near Beloit, Wis., in the 1930s and 40s, Jackie decided at age 14 to chronicle her family’s business. In the decades since, she’s published more than a dozen books, had several plays and […]
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All work and no foreplay
My husband and I are entrepreneurs, developing a new product. We’re both working long hours. He’s miserable because he has no time for his art (painting), and our sex life is in shambles. There isn’t a lot of blame or anger. We simply go about our entire days with little or no flirting and fall […]
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Everybody plays
With the end of summer come the beginning of a new school year, the harvest and the start of an area tradition that draws thousands of children away from their video games and outside onto the mown grass lawns of parks and schools across Springfield. It is the fall soccer season. “Did you have fun?” […]
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Losing her mind, the movie
One of the best theater tickets in town over the last couple of years was to Springfield actor Aasne Vigesaa’s performance of The Yellow Wallpaper at the Vachel Lindsay home, directed by Kevin Purcell. But if you missed that, you can now see it on DVD. Springfield multimedia artist David Cain was so inspired by […]
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Fall is time to care for your tools
After the garden is cleaned up and put to bed for the winter, it is a great time to give your tools some attention. Ideally garden tools should be cleaned, sharpened and hung in the correct place after every use. However, I think most gardeners are like myself, use the tool and be happy that […]
