Luxury camping in the Ozark Highlands.

Nature is a healer. Poppies, cosmos, coneflowers, coreopsis, Indian blanket, Mexican hat, bachelor’s button, black-eyed Susans, zinnias and larkspur emerge quite readily on their own in this half-acre volunteer garden behind a Merriam industrial park.

Sometimes spring weather doesn’t jive with our longing for warmer temperatures.

Julie Heise had practiced anesthesiology for 27 years when she traded in her epidural and nerve block needles for acupuncture needles.