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Even in the hardest times, you can trust that there is new life waiting for you, writes Faith & Values columnist Laura Horton-Ludwig.

Bill Felker's almanack for Southwest Ohio and beyond features observations and reflections on the natural world.

The ovaries arent functioning. for others, like soe—myat, they experience menopause as a direct result of other medical treatment, like chemotherapy or surgery. you can also go into a medically induced temporary menopause. this is also known as a chemical or medical menopause, but well come to that in a bit. ijust went back to school and had my history class and i remember trying to subtly tell my friend in code in the middle of class, like, what had just happened. if it was something that cha...

All myjumpers off, go outside and just stand on the fire escape, often in, like, deep winter, just wearing a t—shirt. i would come back in and my friends that i was sat next to said that they could feel the heat radiating off me. the only thing i could cling on to with my diagnosis was that it was something that made me different, so i was initially really hesitant to, like, reach out to the community and, like, develop friends with the condition. im 22 years old and at the age i of 15 i was d...

But thats not how it works. and when i had the hot flushes when i was in sixth form, i was so hot, i would have to take all myjumpers off, go outside and just stand on the fire escape, often in, like, deep winter, just wearing a t—shirt. i would come back in and my friends that i was sat next to said that they could feel the heat radiating off me. the only thing i could cling on to with my diagnosis was that it was something that made me different, so i was initially really hesitant to, like, ...

So I have this friend. One of my oldest – we met over 43 years ago in Kindergarten. Lincolnville’s first Kindergarten, but that is a story for another column. We are both oldish men with kids of our own at LCS. We text regularly, and every time the...

This is Bill Felker with Poor Will’s Almanack for first week of Deep Winter, the third week of the Crow Moon, the third week of the Sun in Capricorn.

Boyle's prose flits artfully around on the page, rich in imagery and colloquial phrasing, often delivered via first-person narrators as deeply flawed as any reader could hope for. Sometimes this makes for an awkward balance between comedy and tragedy, but in his best work, Boyle succeeds in nailing a particular vein of (usually) male rage. His latest story collection, I Walk

In Atoms and Ashes, Plokhy leads us on a “guided tour” of disasters besetting nuclear power in the past 70 years. These include the Castle Bravo nuclear test on the Marshall Islands (1954); the explosion of a nuclear waste tank at Kyshtym, in the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union (1957); a fire at the Windscale Works in England (1957); Three Mile Island in the U.S. (1979);

IN the centenary year of the first appearance in print of Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland’s greatest 20th-century poet and political pioneer, Ruth Nicol…