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May 20, 2013

Don't just stand there

Debbie Kievits helps kids break the silence on bullying

Most anti-bullying programs address the bullies or the bullied. Debbie Kievits of Norwich is focusing on the most numerous and influential participants in this sad scene, played out daily in so many schools and homes — the bystanders.
Kievits is a volunteer...

Setting a course for motherhood

Five years ago, Capt. Andrea Marcille said, she had to choose between commanding a ship and becoming a mother.
If she went to sea on a major Coast Guard cutter for two years, for her next assignment she would be a strong candidate for a job considered one of the best in the service — leading the crew of the barque Eagle and training the next...

Summers in Misquamicut seemed endless when we were young

You can't go back there right now, because let's face it, you are not the same. It was always a fiction, anyway, that the beach you saw yesterday was the beach you see today. Each time a wave crashes against the rocks off shore, each time it tosses pebbles up and down again, it sifts and reorders things. Sometimes the changes are so extraordinary you can feel the past slipping through...

Read On: Local writer featured in "Soup" series

We introduced Grace readers to "Penelope's Cruise" author Dodie Milardo of Westbrook in this story from April, 2011. Milardo had come up with a novel idea for marketing her first, well, novel. Her plan was to donate 90 percent of the net profits from her book sales to charitable organizations,...

If you're going to watch zombies, plan to work out

Human bodies have intricate ways of responding to stress. These stress responses helped our ancestors to survive and adapt to the sources of stress that they faced. Our inherited physical responses to stress are designed to get us away from danger or hunt another animal (fight or flight) as our ancestors did. Modern stressors do not require us to engage in physical activity. In fact, when people are experiencing stress, they are often sitting or lying down. Our bodies' stress...

Poet-to-poet: A conversation with Rhonda Ward

Rhonda Ward is an inspiration to the writing world. A native of Ohio, Ward was born in Cincinnati and raised in Dayton. The youngest of...