by Laurie Merrill | Features
THREE BRIGHT PAINTINGS OF FLOPPY-EARRED GOATS dot the guest room wall in the home of Mark and Debbie Anderson. The couple’s three girls, now young women with children of their own, dub it the “Goat Room,” a nod to the playful art, and admonish their mother not to...
by Laurie Merrill | Features
IT IS 4:30 A.M. ON A WEEKDAY WHEN A MOTHER OF FIVE WAKES UP, slips on her running shoes and leaves her house in darkness to join a small group on a seven-mile run. This is her routine four mornings a week. She will swim a few miles in a pool or cycle 20 miles through...
by Laurie Merrill | Features
Ahm the long-anticipated rewards of retirement. It’s considered the age of fulfillment, the age when you take that class in watercolors, sail a translucent blue ocean, embark on a highway adventure along the California coast or plant the garden you have always wanted....
by Laurie Merrill | Features
A Swedish Heritage. A Southern Embrace. JULIE AND HENRIK NORLANDER have been married less than four months, but the petite native Augustan and the Swedish professional golfer seem to have already found their swing as a force of one. The newlyweds, sitting in their...