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Candy flavors. Feels cool. Seems harmless. Kills it on Instagram. Easily concealed from parents and teachers. For these reasons and more, electronic cigarettes have exploded … Continue reading
Lane Community College will offer its first yoga instructor certification program in January. The 200-hour training emphasizes injury prevention and therapeutic approaches to give instructors … Continue reading
It was Oct. 29, the night we came home from the hospital with our baby girl, and the scene was utterly ridiculous. Approaching bedtime we … Continue reading
I got sick the summer between my freshman and sophomore years at the University of Oregon. This wasn’t a one-and-done sickness. It was the slow-burning … Continue reading
So the new you wants to get in shape this year — a lofty goal that is easier said than done. If diets and gym … Continue reading
For centuries upon sad centuries of human history, people have been searching desperately for that proverbial Fountain of Youth — a futile quest for a … Continue reading
Timothy Burns is 27 years old. Before age 3, he underwent six open-heart surgeries for a congenital heart condition — mirror-image dextrocardia. “I have no … Continue reading
She moved into River Grove Memory Care in Lane County in October of 2016, needing a little more rehabilitation and care before she could go … Continue reading
“Walking is the best physical exercise,” writer Bill Sullivan says. “People are designed to walk. It gets rid of the crap of civilization.” Sullivan … Continue reading
A person’s period doesn’t give a damn whether she’s in the woods, if she has a house or if there’s a trashcan around to take … Continue reading
Two days after the presidential election, my therapist asked me how I was feeling. A continuous loop of video footage of people shouting, “Hail Trump,” … Continue reading
An oceanic change has swept over national and international landscape, something swelling and churning for many years that, regardless of your sociopolitical orientation, seems with … Continue reading
“Gaining weight was the worst possible thing that could happen,” says 17-year-old South Eugene High School senior Sophie Kreitzberg. Returning from a 500-mile walk along Spain’s Camino de Santiago, Kreitzberg had never been so thin. “I got so much attention,” she remembers, noting that she experienced her first romance, was cast in plays and that social interaction was just easier as a thin woman. “My grandmother cried because I was so beautiful,” Kreitzberg recalls. Continue reading
It has always struck me as one of the great injustices of womanhood — the monthly bloodbath from a body part that is normally reserved for sexytime (not a baby corridor just yet, thank you very much). I try to tell myself that it’s some great honor, an ancient rite of femininity that brings me closer to nature and the goddess within us all. But that kind of bullshit isn’t terribly reassuring when you’ve bled through your pants and flushed your last tampon down the toilet. Continue reading