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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie in Louisville
A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to find some amazing Louisville treats to keep my sweet tooth happy and buy local during these trying times. I ended up thinking it would be fun to select the business that bakes the best chocolate chip cookie in the whole city. After many, many samplings, I have my answer: Butchertown Grocery Bakery!
Don’t Miss Out! Three Summer Events You Need to Plan For Now
See the forest in a whole new way! This Saturday, July 10, the Louisville Nature Center will host a Night Hike. Participants will join a Louisville Nature Center naturalist for a guided hike at dusk. For safety, this event is limited to a maximum of 15 participants. Brew at the...
Tom Wills talks life after being a chief meteorologist, his love of Sherlock Holmes, and how you need to stay moving.
When Tom Wills was WAVE 3 TV’s Chief Meteorologist, a career that spanned from 1969 to 2009, his weather predictions told us when to expect rain, snow, and of course, those beautiful sunny days to come. What he might not have predicted in his own life was enjoying the beauty of a completely open schedule that his retirement is now offering, “The freedom of time is quite good,” Tom says.
Five Ways to Experience Summer and Sunshine
When the sun is shining, it’s time to get out and experience the things that can illuminate every spot of your life. Try one or all of these ideas for using the sunshine to brighten your days and lift your mood. Take a bike ride through Cherokee Park, the Parklands...
A Tragedy, A Decision and How it Changed This Family
Most adult children expect to see their parents grow older. Their parents may face a terminal cancer diagnosis or suffer a stroke; they may simply become more frail over time. Michelle Tupper Butler saw her father, Frank Tupper, go through an experience she wouldn’t wish on anyone. That traumatic event changed the course of his life, her life, her family’s life, and her professional endeavors.
Healthy Food Challenge: Take-Home Meal Kit
Can we eat a little better with each meal? Today’s Transitions decided to take a healthy-meals-made-easy challenge to see if we could eat nutritionally well in an easy way. We selected three different meal options: a take-home meal kit, a heat-and-eat meal prep service, carryout from a local restaurant. Little...
Healthy Food Challenge: Heat-and-Eat-Meal-Prep Service
Can we eat a little better with each meal? Today’s Transitions decided to take a healthy-meals-made-easy challenge to see if we could eat nutritionally well in an easy way. We selected three different meal options: a take-home meal kit, a heat-and-eat meal prep service, carryout from a local restaurant. Sticky...
Creating Beautiful Spaces (and what’s back on trend!)
Working out of her home studio/office located in the sunroom of her Highland’s condo, Lyn Mabry, along with her design team, guides clients through the process of interior design, staging, renovation, move management, and home organization. Originally from Nashville, Lyn says she inherited her design DNA from her mother. Before starting her own company, Living Spaces by Lyn in 2012, she worked in sales and marketing for historic hotels including The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, The Peabody in Memphis, and The Brown Hotel in Louisville.
Caregiving is not fun, but it is love. Some ideas from others.
Caregiving is an act of love and compassion, but it comes with challenges. Sometimes caregiving requires families to change their living arrangements. In other cases, family members change their professional lives to meet their loved one’s needs. In every caregiving situation, it is essential that the individuals providing care give themselves permission to take breaks and de-stress.
Buzzing with Inspiration
The great outdoors is buzzing with inspiration, and this is where Libby Rosenberger of Spencer County, Kentucky, discovered her passion for beekeeping. Libby, a retired math teacher, has always been afraid of insects, but when her neighbor mentioned they acquired some bees, she decided that was a project she’d like to try. A “laid-back beekeeper,” she enjoys caring for them and says, “It’s fascinating just to see the intricacies of their civilization.”
Caregiving Answers: How to Make a Bath Safer?
When mobility is a challenge, tasks that were once simple such as getting into the bath or shower, become not only more difficult, but also more dangerous, as balance wanes. There are a number of useful assistive technology devices that make getting into the bath or shower a safer experience.
What’s Her Life Look Like Now? Art + Learning + Travel + Volunteering
A love of art, history, and education are what drew Sarah O’Koon to the Speed Art Museum where she works as a volunteer docent. Looking back over her life, it seems inevitable that she would choose to spend her time among the beautiful exhibits, bringing them to life for visitors.
Bread and Beer
Finding a passion all his own, Libby’s husband, Greg Rosenberger is a bread baker and a beer brewer. Greg worked for AT&T for over 41 years before retiring but his love of brewing has been brewed into his DNA. During prohibition his grandmother made her own beer and he’s taken this love and distilled it into a 25-year hobby. Today, Libby and Greg’s passions mix when Libby adds honey from her hive to Greg’s latest home brew, “This brews a type of mead beer called a braggot,” Greg says.
Healthy Food Challenge: Better Burger
Can we eat a little better with each meal? Today’s Transitions decided to take a healthy-meals-made-easy challenge to see if we could eat nutritionally well in an easy way. We selected three different meal options: a take-home meal kit, a heat-and-eat meal prep service, carryout from a local restaurant. Double...
How I transformed my house
Contributing editor to Today’s Transitions Lucy Pritchett shares how she completely renovated her house. The doorway leading into the room with the fireplace was not there before the reconstruction. There was a solid wall. Where the right-hand bookcase is now was the entrance to the long hallway that led to the back of the house. This front room now gets added light from the window by the fireplace and two more in the hallway. I love having my books with me, and the funky rug makes my feet happy. I could have made these two rooms one big one, but I like corners to make me feel cozy.
Granddaughter finds ways to engage her loved ones and manage her own stress.
Natasha Reece has been acting as a caregiver for her grandfather, Jerry Whelan, who has frontotemporal dementia, since November 2020 after his wife, Alma, was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. The family looked into hiring outside help, but the costs were quite high. It made sense for Natasha, who had been in the social work field, to become his caretaker, although she says that early on, she actually acted as a caretaker to both of her grandparents since it took Alma months to recover.
When Disappointment Rains Down
How to live victoriously anyway. It has been said that every person’s life is a diary in which he or she means to write one story, and is forced to write another. That is, we plan for one way; we are forced to travel another. But what shall we say...
Electrify Your Bike Ride
Remember what it felt like taking those training wheels off your bicycle? That feeling of nervousness down-shifts in your stomach to reveal those first feelings of giddy independence. This is when you get an initial taste of the freedom cycling can offer. For some, this passion never leaves and for others, it’s rediscovered when the right bicycle comes along.
Gardening is Ever-Present Hope
Debby Levine of Crescent Hill says her passion for gardening has always been part of her life. This love for all things green and growing was passed on to her by her mother, “I totally absorbed it and have developed it,” she says. Debby earned her masters degree in botany in the early 1980s, but didn’t have a chance to get her hands dirty using it until her move to Louisville 17 years ago. “The passion was there but the opportunity wasn’t,” she says. Since moving here, Debby has volunteered and taken classes at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens and also works to cultivate her own backyard garden.
One Property, Three Generations: A Decision to Live Close
The Cliffords like to keep close. So close that when it came time for Laura and Pat’s only son, Sean, to choose a bride, he conveniently selected the beauty three doors down. So close that when an unheard-of property went on the market, just a mile from their original Highland’s homestead—a property consisting of an old plantation-style farmhouse for Sean’s new family with enough vacant land to build his parents a nearby home on—Sean decided to jump on it.
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