October 21, 2020, 6:00am Clark County Life
The 18th century English writer and noted wit Sydney Smith said it best: “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.” Smith was also a cleric in the Anglican church, so it’s safe to say he had divine insight into this matter. Read story
October 14, 2020, 4:04pm Clark County Life
I’m going to come clean: I love those buttery round crackers named after a pricey hotel chain. I love their cheerful golden color. I love their crispy, flaky layers. I love the way they taste with cheese. I eschewed these crispy crackers for years because of their relatively high fat content, but about two days after we began our March self-quarantine, I rediscovered their comfort content. Read story
October 11, 2020, 5:19am Breast Cancer
Chemotherapy treatments can be singularly unnerving, even though cancer clinics are designed with patients’ comfort in mind. Read story
October 10, 2020, 6:00am Clark County Life
Pumpkins are popping out all over, and pumpkin patches across Clark County are open and offering a panoply of activities modified with COVID-19 safety in mind. Here are five local favorites with brief descriptions of what to expect at each location. No matter where you go, potential pumpkin pickers should be prepared to mask up, sanitize their hands frequently and maintain a distance of 6 feet from others wherever possible. Read story
October 7, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Life
To paraphrase Paul McCartney, you’d think that people would have had enough of silly pumpkin recipes, but I look around me and I see it isn’t so. I am proud of my pumpkin-love, although I’m aware of the anti-pumpkin faction. The anti-pumpkinists would say pumpkin is positively passe and attention should be lavished on other autumnal foods, like cranberries, apples, pears, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, squash and sweet potatoes. To them… Read story
September 30, 2020, 5:01pm Clark County Life
It could be said that graham crackers are a divine invention, inspired by the 19th century preaching of Sylvester Graham, who touted the benefits of a vegetarian diet with whole grains. Graham flour — made from coarsely ground whole wheat — was created especially for Graham’s followers, known as Grahamites, and the flour was used to make bread and crackers. The first mass-produced graham crackers were sold in 1898 and… Read story
September 27, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Life
Fortunately for us, Clark County’s dahlias are unbothered by pandemics or smoky skies. Local dahlia fields are still blooming like that’s the only thing that matters. Even though dahlia season starts in July and peaks around Labor Day, these fearless flowers will keep strutting their stuff until the first frost of October. Read story
September 24, 2020, 6:04am Clark County Life
Downtown Camas welcomes autumn and the Rebel Alliance with its annual pumpkin pageant and costume contest, returning this year beginning Sunday through First Friday, Oct. 2, featuring everyone’s favorite Galactic Empire. Read story
September 23, 2020, 6:03am Clark County Life
As I spent last week watching the sky shift from sulfurous yellow to soupy gray-orange, judging the air quality by whether I could see the other side of my yard, I decided it was best not to leave my house. It was time to Use What We Had (capital letters intended to convey that I’m using my best “keep calm and carry on” inner voice). This week’s article, then, is… Read story
September 20, 2020, 6:30am Clark County Life
Clark County’s cats are not social distancing. They’ve gotten very close indeed over the past several months, and now local shelters are overrun with kittens. This is what’s known as “kitten season”—the year’s warmest months, when cats are at their most amorous — and it is continuing apace. Read story
