By Amy Elliot What is better than one great community coming together to support another community? Nothing! Over the past 10 years, the Wyoming Primary Schools have made it their mission to do just this. Harvest Fest, started by Adam Beard and a few fellow community members, is an event that has not only grown... Continue Reading →
By Julie Isphording You’re not wrong for feeling like you don’t have it all figured out—that’s just not reality. Life doesn’t work that way. Life is supposed to be challenging, confusing, heartbreaking, and breathtaking. It’s really supposed to be a string of lessons, memories, and adventures. At the end of the day, we’re all searching,... Continue Reading →
By Mary Casey-Sturk When native Cincinnatian Megan Milstead was pregnant with her second child, she learned that diapers, a large expense for new parents, were not covered by any social services programs. Parents, under economic strain, might use one diaper for days at a time, cleaning them out the best they could or using a... Continue Reading →
By Julie Isphording How I love the silence of early mornings before the rest of the world rises. There’s this gentle hum of stillness before the world demands that you move — fast and furiously — for everyone and everything! On quiet mornings like this, it’s as if anything is possible, and you can embrace... Continue Reading →
by Julie Isphording The awful feelings of stress, anxiety and unhappiness are simply part of living life in a messy, crazy, exciting, good, not-so-good and uncertain world. They are perfectly normal feelings. We all spend some portion of our day lost in overthinking all kinds of things. It is the human condition. However, there must... Continue Reading →
By Julie Isphording You would think that worrying would prepare us for hardships, awful things and big challenges. But it doesn’t. Nothing prepares us. We dedicate so much time to worrying; and unfortunately, it causes so much needless suffering — tension, poor sleep, irritability, fatigue, sadness, impatience, fear, negativity and general unhappiness. What’s even worse... Continue Reading →
By Julie Isphording It is unrealistic to be happy all the time—which sounds obvious---but the worldly message has become that ‘if you are not happy, you are not doing life right.’ Similarly, there is an idea that happiness is something you can achieve and then relax. Wrong—just wrong! A good life is a complicated life for... Continue Reading →
Lindsey Franxman, a Highlands High School grad and current Miss Winter Park (with the Miss America Organization) is channeling her colorful, multi-hyphenate life into advocating for and advancing childhood literacy and fitness initiatives in her current home in Florida — but it all started right here, in Fort Thomas.
By Robin Gee, Hyde Park Living Editor February is American Heart Month, an effort to raise awareness, as well as money for research to combat the disease. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death globally according to the World Health Organization. An estimated 17.9 million people die of heart diseases every year, a number... Continue Reading →
