Natural Selections

With all the colorful abundance surrounding us in autumn, it’s easy to decorate your home for the season using nature’s gifts. Connecting with nature is truly satisfying, and it reduces our stress – and saves money – when we let Mother Nature do the work. After all, she does autumn decorating so well.

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Party in the Parking Lot

Regardless of what’s happening on the playing field, you can always count on there being lots of action outside the stadium. Tailgating is a time-honored tradition – one that’s as old as the sports we celebrate. But Joe Cahn, the self-proclaimed Commissioner of Tailgating, says tailgating isn’t exclusive to football.

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Rain or Shine

Leading fitness experts recommend that children and adolescents get at least 30 minutes of moderately intensive activity each day. But as the temperature drops, so can your child’s activity level. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be the case. “Exercise doesn’t have to be competitive,” says Debbie Williams, director of Developmental Assessments for Let It Shine Gymnastics in Franklin, Tenn.

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Business Is Sweet

When Charles Martin Dinstuhl Sr. began crafting chocolates by hand in Memphis in 1902, he used giant copper kettles, thick marble slabs and the purest ingredients money could buy. More than 100 years later, operations at Dinstuhl’s Fine Candy Co.’s 11,000-square-foot “candy kitchen” bear a striking resemblance to the founder’s original system. Dinstuhl’s great-great-grandson Andrew and a team of about 35 workers still use some of those same kettles and marble slabs, and they still insist on pure ingredients without a trace of preservatives.

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