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Glowing Skin Pudding
Don’t let the bright green color of this dessert scare you, as it can nourish your skin from the inside out. Full of healthy fats and Vitamin E, avocado can make your hair and skin look softer, and the Omega 3-rich chia seeds can help your skin appear more youthful and supple. All of this can happen while you’re enjoying …
Yoga is Alive in the Students
Yoga speaks through the lives of the people it touches. Yoga in books and videos is very different than yoga in real time and practice. Since ‘Yoga’ is a verb, it is defined best when active and alive. Yoga in its classical definition in Sanskrit means “to yoke” or “to unify.” It speaks of the process of connecting, …
The Beauty of Integrative Care
After 12-plus years in Highlands and on the Plateau, I have gained an even greater appreciation for integrative health care. As we all know, healthcare is no longer health care. Instead, we live in a disease-managed-care system, utilizing and often abusing prescription medications while natural, holistic approaches are underutilized. The largest problem arises from miseducation and lack of education within the …
Importance of Health Screenings at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
Mission and Highlands-Cashiers Hospital work hard to make their quality health services more accessible to residents of Western North Carolina. Their latest contribution: expanding monthly colorectal screenings. General surgeon Dr. Marco Chavarria and his team from Transylvania Regional Hospital will be conducting colonoscopies and endoscopies two or more days per month depending upon the season. March is National …
Apple-y Ever After
The Cashiers Historical Society has an exciting calendar of events planned for their 2018 season. They’ll kick off their season on March 10 with their annual Heritage Apple Day at the Cashiers Community Center from 11:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. Everyone’s invited to attend and learn about this fruit that has meant so much to the development of Cashiers. You’ll …
A Class of Her Own, Highlands History
They don’t tell you this in college, but the best teachers are those who learn as a child how to put one over on an adult. You can’t out-rascal an accomplished rascal. The young Ethel Calloway, later to become a legendary Highlands schoolteacher, excelled in mischief. As a student at Shortoff School, she started a rumor that the local water supply …
The Mckinney Spring, Cashiers History
Not very long ago, the Cashiers Crossroads Chronicle featured a front page article about the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust adding the McKinney Meadow in Cashiers to their holdings. I have more information about the McKinney boarding house and the nearby McKinney spring that was written about in a book published in 1891 by David U. Sloan titled “The Fogy Days and …
Happy Little Bluebirds
This beautiful bird – the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) – is celebrated in a Belgium fairy tale as the “Bluebird of Happiness” and located by Hollywood and Dorothy as being “somewhere over the rainbow.” It’s the state bird in Missouri and New York. What’s not to like about this resplendent songster? A member of the thrush family, bluebirds are cousins …
Snowdrops Welcome Spring
March in these parts isn’t over by a long shot, but if you bend over and look closely…bend over a little more…just a little more – there, you see them? Little snowdrops are gracing some of our landscapes, and isn’t it about time to see things greening up around here? First, you’ll see the two, sometimes three, long …
Better Safe Than Soggy, Fly Fishing in Highlands
It’s that time of year again, time to head into the attic, basement, or garage and get your fly fishing gear out and get ready for another season. Unfortunately, the first time we think about cleaning and checking our gear is when we are already in the water. Do yourself a favor and get your gear out early …
A Peace of Granite, A Tale of Granite City
There is a place I’ve been hesitant to write about because I consider it to be my secret spot, even though chances are that you’ve been there too. I have a need to be alone in nature on a regular basis, and I live close enough to my secret place that I can zip up there normally when no one …
A Sweet Task, March Dinner Reservations
So here we are in March, probably the most awkward time for restaurants on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau. Most of the places are just coming out of a winter’s nap, and they’re getting organized for the Summer Slam, which starts some time around Memorial Day and keeps them spinning until the last leaf has fallen from the trees. However, this same …
