By Anastasia Mills Healey Artwork by Justin Negard We all know overachievers. A National Merit Scholar who pitches for the state champion baseball team while also starring in the school musical, working in the office of an elected official, and discovering an enzyme critical to understanding a disease. This type of multi-talented student is what Lisa Bleich, the author of ...

Understanding the Fear Free philosophy By Dr. Sarah J. Cutler Artwork by Valeria Raymond We’ve come a long way in how we treat our pets. Over the past few decades, we’ve raised the standards and awareness about how pets are treated in the veterinary setting, at home, during grooming and in training. The Fear Free philosophy was created to train ...

Our brains can learn and change at any age, and lifelong learning helps improve resistance to age-related cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease. By Gia Miller Artwork by Eliyahu Greenwald In December 2011, Eleanor Maguire, Ph.D., a cognitive neuroscientist at the University College London, published the results of a groundbreaking four-year study she conducted on “average-IQ adults” studying to become London ...

A sequel to our life skills course. By Ava Elghanayan Artwork by Aeneas Eaton Editor’s Note: Our last education issue (Sept./Oct. 2023) featured a life skills course that encouraged parents to teach teens about essential life skills that aren’t covered in the classroom. We explained how to teach everything from personal finance and grocery shopping to home repairs and job ...

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By Judy Chinitz and Alex Gorman Artwork by Justin Negard Founders’ note: In our September/October 2023 education issue, we told the remarkable story of Judy Chinitz and Alex Gorman. The article, titled F-O-R-C-E ...

Written by Alexa Berman, Ava Elghanayan, Gia Miller and Elijah Willner Designed by Anne Kennedy Education covers a lot of ground—and it all starts with the basics, just like learning the alphabet. This A–Z guide doesn’t claim to have all the answers, but it will give you a snapshot of key facts, fresh developments and ideas for supporting your own ...

Writing and Photography by Justin Negard Port Chester is changing so quickly; your favorite spot today could be a construction site tomorrow. It is a village in flux, reshaping street by street. And so, this is less of a story on what to do in Port Chester and more of a snapshot in time, showcasing where Port Chester is today ...

Writing and Design by Isabella Aranda Garcia Even if you’ve never picked up a controller, chances are you can hum the Super Mario Bros. theme without thinking twice. That iconic tune has become a cultural staple—proof that video game music has quietly embedded itself into everyday life. What began as a simple jingle, created by composer Koji Kondo, challenged developers ...

There’s something special, even magical, about live music with a beautiful, historic 1,400-acre property in the Hudson Valley as the backdrop. Whether it’s witnessing a captivating sunset while enjoying a concert or “dancing” under the stars at a DJ Swim Night in the lake, when the landscape becomes part of the show, memories are made. And that’s what happens every ...