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Today's Features

  • Scheduling workout no barrier for athletic trainer

    As a certified athletic trainer for high school sports, mother of twin boys, wife of a certified athletic trainer for a baseball team and coordinator of sports medicine at an Elizabethtown facility, Carol George gives her scheduling abilities a workout.

    “I don’t fly by the seat of my pants, usually,” George said.

    In fact, she said, if there’s one thing she’s learned about raising twins, it’s that keeping a strict schedule is crucial. Her sons are 2.

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  • Time After Time: Paint store offered more than color

    Storybooks waited in the corner for curious little feet to walk their way and magazines about homes and gardens and art waited for customers to walk to the basket nearby, but the real stories — the best stories — were the ones found within the color swatches that waited for all those who walked through the doors of Jenkins-Essex Supply, which sold Porter Paints, to ask Rita Jenkins or Jay or Neff for help with their next project.

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  • Kitchen Adventures: Camping food without going camping

    As I grow older, I lose the excitement I once had as a child to go camping. Going camping in a camper still has an appeal and being outdoors always is a refreshing feeling. The popping sound and the warm glow of a campfire also are a bonus.

    But sleeping on the ground in a tent with no bathroom loses its luster when your body aches and back pain comes into play. Ah, to be young again.

    Some of the fun of camping in is the food. Of the foods linked to camping, s’mores top the list.

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  • Dash of Class: Many cooks pitch in for Recipe Roundup

    For Recipe Roundup this month, we have quite a variety of recipes. Thanks to Mary Cantwell, we have some really interesting, easy recipes. Two of my friends from Cecilia Homemakers shared with me the recipe for their very delicious chocolate cake and Sharon Johnson from Fort Knox National Co. shared one more recipe from Lucille Masden, a Lebanon Junction legend for great food. Sharon says the roll recipe is a favorite of her family.

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  • Mudd lives dream as athletic trainer

    When Chris Mudd was a little boy, he wanted to grow up to be a Major League Baseball player. After realizing that wasn’t in the cards, he decided to continue his desire to work in baseball and became an athletic trainer.

    Mudd was introduced to athletic training when he was in high school in Grayson County. After shadowing the school trainer, he went to Western Kentucky University to study athletic training, later earning a master’s degree in sports medicine and health care at the University of Alabama.

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  • Berlin Wall exhibit provides palette for Fort Knox artist

    Tressa Croce Breton will leave some important graffiti behind when she and her husband leave Fort Knox.

    A professional artist by trade, Breton created the artwork for a display of the Berlin Wall for the General George Patton Museum of Leadership.

    The display consists of a representation of the wall that includes graffiti and artwork ranging from accomplished artists to everyday people, she said.

    “I wanted to show the variety of the population and represent everyone,” Breton said.

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  • 'Gatsby' adaptation less than great

    “Romeo + Juliet” director Baz Luhrmann puts the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel on screen for the summer movie season in “The Great Gatsby.”

    While I’m always a fan of literature in film, “Gatsby” is not the happiest of stories. It’s not what you would call an entertaining time at the movies. Instead, it expresses the central theme that money and decadence can’t make someone happy or make dreams come true.

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  • Good stuff comes easy

    It’s strange how we build such complicated lives even though the most enjoyable things in life are quite simple.

    We have houses too spacious to keep clean and appliances that mimic those in the kitchens of gourmet restaurants. But a crisp set of Downy-scented bed sheets or a window open to spring’s breeze brings an indulgent, satisfied smile just as quickly.

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  • Patty Rouse, running the race

    From running track to a career in officiating, teacher Patty Rouse’s life is a race she likes running.

    She started in track and field as a fifth-grader in Fleming County. Before her family moved to Kentucky, she was raised on chicken farms in Arkansas. In Arkansas she participated in barrel racing and horseback riding.

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  • Motherhood and More: Screen time piles on guilt

    I feel like a failure as a mother.

    I mean, that’s really nothing new at this point. But specifically, now, I feel like a failure as a mother because I allow my son to spend entirely too much time parked in front of a screen.

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