By Evergreen, I have greatly noticed the rise in late night jokes about US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  They all deal with her face and lampoons on various cosmetic surgery variations.    Even the way she smiled during Barack Obama’s joint Congressional Speech was TV comedic fodder.   Pelosi is one […]

by Kay Helbling On St. Patrick’s Day my husband and I decided to join in the festivities at one of Portland’s institutions, the North 45 Pub. We’ve not a drop of Irish blood between us but that wasn’t holding us back from a good time. I don’t know that the owners, Josh […]

By Erika Weisensee, In what’s clearly a sign of the times, two Oregon museums recently made the news as the latest casualties of the economic crisis. First, the Oregon Historical Society announced staff cutbacks, citing fewer donations and fear of dwindling state funds. Then, the media reported that Oregon City’s […]

By Olivia C. Rossi, RN, MSN, ACSM Your Personal Trainer, Did you know that doing NEAT things can help you to lose and maintain your weight?  NEAT, “Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, refers to the calories you burn doing everything that isn’t going to the gym, sleeping or eating.  Life impacts NEAT […]

Part Three of BACK FROM IRAQ: Diary of a Comedian By Sharon Lacey, Portland (In Part Two, I told about my third night in the Middle East – our first perfomance, at Ali Al Salem military base in Kuwait, where I began to realize what I truly had come here […]

Weekend National Health Focus: (HealthDay News) — People with moles and other features that put them at higher risk of skin cancer may also have an increased chance of developing melanoma of the eye, a new study says.Canadian researchers found links between skin moles, freckles, moles on the iris and […]

By Linda Kopp, Women’s Report Reviewer Review: I cannot, in good conscience, recommend Confessions of a Shopaholic.  The story is considered a comedy; however, the comedy is quite distasteful.  It is set to a well known song of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”  The story revolves around a 25 […]

Oregon’s Lipstick Revolution: Mother of Oregon–Tabitha Moffett Brown By Naomi Inman At my son’s recent “slumber” party I thoroughly enjoyed the movie Madagascar 2.  The funniest character ever is the old lady, Nana, who runs across the zany beasts on her African Safari tour and proclaims, “I’m not gonna stay […]

By Erika Weisensee Americans are spending more time than ever online, recent studies show. It goes without saying, more and more of our communication is happening in cyberspace. Emailing, instant-messaging, blogs and message boards provide ample ways for us to put our ideas out there. Unfortunately, when it comes to […]

Re-Wire Your Workout with Circuit Training By Olivia C. Rossi, RN, MSN, ACSM Your Personal Trainer: Circuit training is composed of a set of several exercise stations done in sequence with little or no rest between them.  It can easily be worked into your cardiovascular and resistance training routines.  Circuit […]