How a small town in Northeast Tennessee helped AT hikers cross the Nolichucky after Helene

TikTok and Instagram are saturated with seasonal color analysis filters, palettes and influencers vlogging their professional analysis consultations. Everyone wants to know if they are a winter, summer, autumn or spring. This age-old question is rooted in the discovery of Johannes Itten, a Swiss painter and art professor in the early 1900s. Itten's theory claims that all humans are born with a preference for a specific color palette based on the undertone of their skin, said Shelli...

Food is something we take for granted. We eat three meals every day, snacks in between and sweet treats whenever we have a craving. Food is an experience. It is a social event. It is a seemingly simple reality of life. But what happens when food becomes your enemy? When eating is no longer simple and enjoyable? When meals become an isolating event? My battle with food began in summer 2024. For months, my body had been telling me that something was amiss, but I ignored it, powering through...