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Archive for March, 2012
Gathering The Tribes
My brother, Brian, raises goats on our family’s farm in Nokomis. Last fall he sold two especially tasty youngsters to the St. Saba Serbian Orthodox Church in North Port. They were the highlight of a festival the church puts on every year to raise money for its building fund. Now the Rev. Dragan Zaric calls [...]
Read More >>From New York with Love
Botanical themes are nothing new to art and jewelry. Ancient Persians, Chinese and Egyptians carved, wove and painted flowers, vines and trees on everything from furniture and tapestries to body adornments in veneration of nature’s beauty and perceived mystical powers. David Lee Holland and Yannis Kyriazis, New York-based jewelers with a growing Sarasota connection, are [...]
Read More >>Rescue Me
I’ve Always loved animals. Just ask my pug, Pee-wee. But when one of those TV ads comes on, with the sad-eyed dogs and cats and Sarah McLachlan singing in the background, I pretty much go to pieces. I want to send them money and then run over to the animal shelter and adopt the saddest-eyed [...]
Read More >>A Guide to Manly Beauty
No guy wants to be just another pretty face, but these days, most men are interested in looking as good as they can for as long as they can. Part of that may be our youth-obsessed culture; part of it may be a shrinking job market that favors the survival of the fresh and the [...]
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