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I write about food, the environment, health, human rights—really, anything that interests me. And that’s a lot. I’ve been hooked on Asia ever since I spent a semester of graduate school in Hanoi in 1996. Somehow I managed to wheedle my husband, photojournalist Jerry Redfern, into a life on the move. I took a newspaper job in Phnom Penh shortly after we married, and we’ve been tromping through jungles and rice paddies ever since. For a long time, Jerry and I lumped our work beneath the wide umbrella of societies after war and under oppression. But we’ve strayed from that. We simply th...

They came from across the state on that Thursday night in late October, filling the Wally Allen Ballroom in downtown Little Rock for what the Arkansas Press Association billed as its Freedom Gala.

Several suppliers are getting a jump start on their Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. 

In Shelburne we find local charm, fascinating history, a classic general store, and a bevy of (teddy) bears – all wrapped in a blanket of gorgeous fall color.

A glimpse of unspoiled Maine for those “from away.”