Columns
The Casual Gardener (20)
Shawna Lee Coronado is an author, newspaper columnist, blogger, energetic keynote speaker, and environmental and health correspondent. She is focused on teaching and living a green lifestyle.
Her book “Gardening Nude” encourages healthier living by exposure to nature, greening, and community building. Visit Shawna's prime website for more information on her book and other media - www.thecasualgardener.com. Shawna’s gardening blog is http://thecasualgardener.blogspot.com and her greening blog is www.gardeningnude.com.
Do Try This At Home (in the kitchen) (32)
Margaret, aka Maggie, has written for and edited the foremost online literary food journal, the "Daily Gullet" at egullet.org. Her work is included in the annual anthology, “Best Food Writing 2009.” She lives, writes, cooks and gardens in Warrenville. We are privileged to be able to feast on her writing talent and culinary offerings.
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The Happy Runner (15)
Dwight Sherman writes his weekly column for Village Chronicles and is also a contributing author for other news in the paper.
Neighbor to Neighbor (34)
Bobbie Mignin has been writing since grade school and was first published in Archie Comic Books with an essay that won her a cash first prize. She was hooked on writing and had over 12 “pen pals” (remember those?) in junior high and still writes to one of them. In college, with a journalism minor, she worked at the school newspaper for all four years and started her own column, “Voice of the People,” gathering student opinions on current events and campus news. She was active with the literary writing and poetry groups.
After college, she was an ad copywriter and then went on to work at Merrill Lynch. While working full time, she wrote poetry and a few stories for magazines.
She has lived in Warrenville for 23 years and is a solid White Sox fan. In the early 90’s she became a writer/reporter for the Press Republican Newspaper chain and asked her editor if she could write a column about “anything and everything” and was given the green light. Neighbor to Neighbor was born and over 600 columns later, as a freelance writer, she brought the column back to Warrenville. She has written over 300 feature stories and covered various civic meetings for several years. She continues to freelance as a writer/reporter/publicist.
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Pedal Power (33)
Tom Jones author of the “Pedal Power” column completed a 25 year career in Transportation and Distribution before getting into the Bicycle business. Midwest Cyclery in Downtown Wheaton has been a family operation for 29 years.
Tom and his wife Helen have been married 55 years; have 5 adult children, 11 grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
Tom is a member of the National Bicycle Dealers Association, serves on the Board of Directors of the League of Illinois Bicyclists, and the Warrenville Bicyclists and Pedestrian Advisory Commission. Tom recently retired from several years as a volunteer doing Bike Patrol for the DuPage County Forest Preserve District. He currently is a volunteer for the Bike Patrol unit at the Morton Arboretum., and is a volunteer for the DuPage County Sherriff’s STAR Patrol.
Tom is extremely interested in Bicycle advocacy, which he tries to emphasize in each of his columns.View items...
Easy Spring Plant Display with Pansy Stripes in the Garden
Written by Shawna Coronado
This photo was taken at Ball Horticultural Company’s corporate headquarters in
Gather around, kids, and learn from a sadder and wiser gardener. Do not plant mint directly into your garden unless you want to spend your declining years toiling at a mint plantation.
Want proof? Drive past my house and check out the south side. What was once my vegetable garden is now a 30x5-foot green sea of mint.
Recently, a friend of mine told me that her son is getting ready to head to college, and he just feels like he isn't good enough to go to a four-year school.
He is leaning more towards a tech school. He feels that he just hasn't the interest in studying math or science or anything really academic.
Aren’t you going to be sad? You’re going to be an empty nester? Your baby is graduating?
An amazing barrage of questions has been launched at me during the last six or seven months when friends and family realized our youngest is graduating high school. The answers are yes, no, and yes.
Fennel is making its seasonal springtime return to our supermarkets, and that’s worth a whahoo!
Though I came late to fennel—my mid twenties—I’m a fool for fennel today. I like that licorice bite of raw fennel in a salad, but I like it even better when it’s cooked; the flavor sweetens and mellows.
I wonder what goes through the head of a person that gets a kick out of being a bully. You can't be a happy person inside if that is all you think about doing. You obviously had been bullied yourself or are being bullied by someone else in your life.
Traditions are always comforting, especially when you share them with family. Having children makes traditions extra-special, since it allows us to pass them on. Of course, starting new traditions is special too, because it adds yet another bond with your family.
Hard Boiled Eggs and Jacques Pepin’s Mother and I
Written by Margaret McArthurJacques Pepin and I go way, way back— I’m guessing the late ‘70s. We owned his two early classics, “Le Technique” and “La Methode,” and I can cook a Coulibiac of Salmon and turn a tomato rose because I read them. I own 80 percent of his books, and like many of you, have taken his course catalogue on PBS for a couple of decades.
No it isn't Mothers' Day. But I would like to honor an amazing mother.
On Monday, April 2, we all said goodbye to our mother. She was a mother, a grandmother and a mother in law. She was our encourager.
She was Carol Eads.
Do you love to read about celebrity goings-on? Some stories make me laugh and feel glad I am not a celebrity who needs to share every segment of my life blogging or bragging. But those past and present celebs can be so entertaining!
