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January 2024 Edition
January 1, 2024 in Archive, Featured, Main Feature /by vaobserverSnowflake Bentley: Poet And Scientist
December 31, 2023 in Featured /by vaobserverStory and images by Doug Piefer A freezing rain last night left a glaze of ice on every twig and branch in the woods. Beautiful yet transitory, ice and snow formations disappear quickly either by melting (changing into water) or by sublimating (vaporizing). Seeing their complex patterns, I think of photographs by Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley. Born in […]
Focusing On Children And Family Softens Divorce For All
December 30, 2023 in Featured /by vaobserverBy Brenda Waugh January marks International Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month, shedding light on an approach that prioritizes the well being of children during the divorce process. The concept of a child-centered approach to divorce draws inspiration from the educational philosophies of Rousseau, Dewey, Montessori, Isaacs, Piaget, and Erikson. In education, being child-centered means recognizing and […]
December 2023 Edition
December 1, 2023 in Archive, Featured /by vaobserverTaste the Difference of Local Dry Aged Beef from Big Whiskey Cattle Co.
September 16, 2023 in Featured /by vaobserverBy Rebecca Maynard We’ve all heard the phrase “buy local,” and Ruth Almeter of Big Whiskey Cattle Co. in White Post is truly passionate about its importance. Almeter, who owns the Big Whiskey Cattle Co. ranch with her husband, Paul, and seven children, said that choosing to buy even one item from a local farm rather […]
Banner Year For Smooch-a-Moo Fundraiser
September 16, 2023 in Featured /by vaobserverFor the third year, Friday evening at the Clarke County Fair included the Smooch-a-Moo fundraiser prior to the livestock auction. Throughout the week, people made donations to “vote” for one of four contestants. And, by agreeing to kiss a cow in front of a standing-room-only auction crowd, the participants this year raised $1,113 for the […]
Adventures in ChatThing
September 16, 2023 in Featured /by vaobserverKeto Pizza Dough For Anti-Diabetes Warriors
September 16, 2023 in Featured /by vaobserverBy David Lillard Remember when dietary fat was our mortal enemy? So food companies started loading up foods with sugar and carbohydrates so that they would taste like, well, food? That’s the way I was eating back in June 2013 when I found myself in the ER having a stent implanted into my right coronary […]