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Everyone’s entitled to one good scare, eh? —“Halloween,” 1978 Halloween is frighteningly easy. You don’t have to be thankful, you don’t have to be joyful, and you don’t have to grill anything. Halloween lets you be you. It’s like a college dorm party—drop in for five...

With the kids turned loose upon the town once more, October is shaping up to offer a regular Halloween. We’ll have the door-to-door trick-or-treating, the downtown parade and candy, and probably more costume parties than a family can actually attend. It is fun to...

If you meet Chris Vinci, you won’t have trouble hearing him. His booming baritone is among the first things you’ll notice as he bounds over with a cheerful greeting. He’s tall, he’s loud, and his optimism runneth over. He’s definitely one of the more pleasant people...

Grief Is Circular On the Long Ride  By Frosty Wooldridge“One lousy heart attack that hit my Dad at 46 years of age completely changedthe trajectory of my life.”Have you ever felt the energy of joy? What about winning that soccer game, tennis match or racquetball...

They toil not, neither do they spin, but boy, are they ever arrayed in glory.   Mostly what they make is noise. Their real contributions are few, their rewards many, their esteem beyond reason. They’re white elephants, revered and expensive. They’re hothouse orchids,...

Medical Aesthetics, Evergreen’s premier medical spa, has succeeded for two decades by helping people look the age they feel, rather than the age on their driver’s license. People are living and working longer, and in a community like ours, that often means being...