by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Jul 21, 2022 | Community Involvement
As we come up on National Farmers Market Week (August 7-13, 2022), it’s a good time to celebrate and support our local farmers markets! After all, 8,000+ farmers markets across the country (as per a 2019 study) can’t be wrong, right? Farmers markets make up a crucial...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Jul 18, 2022 | Community Involvement
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research is an amazing organization that is at the forefront of research on Parkinson’s disease. One of their initiatives—the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative, or PPMI—gives the opportunity for anyone to...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Jul 16, 2022 | Community Involvement
In 2007, I (and many, many other people) enjoyed reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, about her family’s year-long quest to eat only locally produced food. Barbara Kingsolver is an amazing writer (I’ve particularly enjoyed Flight Behavior, which...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Jun 24, 2022 | Community Involvement
Is a college degree really worth it? With lists circulating of highly successful college drop-outs like Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, and other luminaries, the value of a four-year degree can seem up for debate. Yet research shows that college matters a...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | May 24, 2022 | Community Involvement
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees the freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly. In many ways, the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment are the foundation of our democratic political system. Yet we always have to make...