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• Baby Step 1: Buy whole foods instead of processed foods September 10, 2010
  BABY STEPS By KIMBERLY ANDERSON Assistant Editor Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by checking her weekly blog, Baby Steps. She welcomes reader response and hopes you’ll [...]
• Get your weekly dose of New Southerner September 10, 2010
  By KIMBERLY ANDERSON Assistant Editor Welcome to the launch of the NEW New Southerner magazine. This is where old-fashioned ideas meet new trends and sensitivities that give us the inspiration to live fuller, more independent lives, strengthen relationships, save money and leave the earth a better place. I say “us” because I am as far from self-sufficie […]
• Novel, poetry collection or concept album? Keane masters the ring and the written word September 10, 2010
  BOOK REVIEW By MARIANNE WORTHINGTON Death-Defying Acts: New Poems Erin Keane WordFarm, 2010 Louisville poet and journalist Erin Keane’s haunting new collection of circus-themed poems comes with a price: reading this book forces us to admit our fascination for freaks and fools and “the exquisite horror of a sideshow.” Like a ringmaster, Keane bala […]
• Farming Cotton September 10, 2010
  FICTION BY LISA GROEN BRANER 1. Tonight the voices from the house are louder than usual. Daddy’s trying to convince Granddad of something. “You wait, it’s coming,” is all I hear before the radio blurs his voice again. In the light of the moon, I lie in a field of tall grass not far from my grandparents’ house. The green [...]
• Homing September 10, 2010
  POETRY BY CHRISTINA LOVIN The cemetery quiet, no visitors today save for the somber pigeon holding vigil on the drive. Some spirit of the dead, earthbound flight of a lost soul? A bird of common gray and royal purple, banded on both legs— one in white for courage, the other black for counted losses. How many miles from where she started, stunned and falle […]
• My cooking is what I call creative September 10, 2010
  NONFICTION By BEEBE BARKSDALE-BRUNER My cooking talent is what I call creative, never fixing anything the same way twice. If I have a recipe in front of me, I don’t follow it. I get ideas on shortcuts. I’ve been that way all my life. My first grade teacher, Miss Redwine, noticed I was loath to listen and [...]
• My Black Dog September 10, 2010
  POETRY BY WANDA FRIES I have tried everything to get rid of him: left him with friends and in kennels or in caves where he disappears not even a shadow but his eyes flicker like flames adjust to the dark— I am hardly back into the sunlight before I sense him already behind me, following me home— I would poison him but what [...]
• [parts of the spine and how they work] September 10, 2010
  NONFICTION By ANNA GILES [lumbar spine — “the lowest part of the spine”] It’s your seventh grade year, and you are fidgeting in a long line in your middle school’s gym. You run your tongue over your braces; your hands are clasped in front of you as you shuffle forward. At the front of the line, you [...]
• Family Farm Day lets you dig in September 9, 2010
  By CAROL GUNDERSEN As regular patrons of their local farmers market, Elizabeth Wood and her family enjoy eating fresh food grown close to home. On a recent Saturday they went right to the source, munching vegetables and exploring the fields of a local farm as part of the Food Literacy Project’s Family Farm Day program. Family Farm [...]
• Middle school students will be part of Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference August 17, 2010
  Register now for the Sierra Club’s 11th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference, which will be held Sept. 24-25 at Spalding University in Louisville. This year’s theme is “A Climate for Change.” Speakers will include: The Rethinkers, a group of mostly middle-school-aged students from New Orleans, who came together to rethi […]

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