Today's Features

So finally 2009 is here. This has been a year I’ve been anticipating for a really long time. This is the year I finally start my life. Graduation is around the corner and so are all the opportunities that lie ahead.

I have to say, bringing in the New Year was not so shabby. All my family was together and having a blast. Now I don’t think you could call my aunty’s party a party — a fiesta sounds more like it.

When mothers and daughters start talking about a book they have just read, they connect on new levels even if they see the story differently.  A good example is the classic, “Pride and Prejudice.”

Daughters may see the story as old fashioned and the older style English language difficult to understand.  Mothers may see the romance with its conflicts and misunderstandings as tender and endearing.

Its official, fall semester is over, finals are here, and so is vacation. People did warn me that time was going to go by fast, but I didn’t realize it would go by this fast!

Once winter break starts everything seems to end  fast, as well. Christmas comes and goes, New Year’s Eve comes and then it finally turns to the New Year. This has to be the fastest year I’ve ever lived.

We tend to think of winter as a time when nothing will grow, but from the plant’s perspective, there are really two winters, and we can take advantage of that fact to have spring veggies sooner than anyone else.

We can say there are two chronologically distinct winters from the plants’ perspective because there are two factors impacting plant growth in the winter months- limited sunlight and cold climate. The two overlap, but do not occur at exactly the same times.