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Community, Lifestyle

Probably some of the first plants I had were funeral plants from my dad’s funeral. So it kind of felt like, ‘I need to keep this alive,�...

Community, Lifestyle

I use my plants as my therapy. You know about the [community] gardens [I work with]. But then [I] also work with a program called Kids in th...

Community, Lifestyle

My mother always had lots of houseplants. It was one of my jobs, too, as a child, that she would give me a damp cloth to clean the leaves of...

How-to, Lifestyle

1. Make sure you get the right plant for the right light. “It’s very disheartening to take care of plants that aren’t thriving in the ...

Community, Relationships

By Jasmine Jones Charlotte Craig walks into a restaurant to meet Charlotte Craig. No, it’s not the start of a “person walks into a bar�...

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Curated by: Kayla Thompson, Adult Services, Cape Girardeau Public Library February is the month centered around love and there are many diff...

Community

By Amanda Flinn This story was first published in the January 2023 issue of “The Best Years” with the title “Living Sustai...

Community

By Jasmine Jones This story was first published in the August 2022 issue of “The Best Years” as ‘Let’s Travel the Wo...

Community

By Molly Phegley This story was first published as “Faces of Southeast Missouri: Dolly Jewel” in the October 2022 issue of The B...