After growing up in East Tennessee’s Appalachian Mountains, where “spooky storytelling” is part of the culture, Becky Kilimnik (Weinberg ‘00) started her own podcast, “Homespun Haints,” with her longtime friend Diana Doty. The show, which launched in July 2019, invites guests to tell their ghost stories, among other varieties of haunted tales. Kilimnik said majoring.
Why burnout is hitting us now
‘People have been in shock, powering through and not stopping to think of what has happened’ (Lily illustration)
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Correction: An earlier version of this article stated Oliver Messner drove to Florida in September. She drove to Florida in August. The article has been corrected.
Olivia Messer can pinpoint the exact moment she realized she could no longer outrun the burnout.
After a year of reporting on the coronavirus for the Daily Beast, she started looking ahead to what life would like look as more Americans received their vaccinations. As we returned to “normal,” would we face some kind of collective post-traumatic stress disorder?
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It’s March again.
For the past year, we have marveled when we could summon the energy at the elasticity of time.
Our lives shrank, routines were upended, children and parents were relegated to the same rooms for days without breaks. Offices, gyms, theaters and arenas emptied. Every new development was cursed as “unprecedented.”
Somehow time went on, through summer, fall, a different type of holiday season and a new year. Now it is March, yet again, and we are moving into our second year of pandemic life. Even with the promise of vaccines, we are tired.
The second time around, a Zoom birthday party has lost its novelty. Another online Passover Seder reminds us that we’re still here. A year into a “Groundhog Day” kind of existence, this month has the potential to be an emotional beast.
BILL PEARSON Wed, 01/27/2021 - 8:30am
Ed Crocker is one of the many satisfied customers buying sports drinks and protein shakes at Harbor Nutrition in Boothbay. The store is owned by Kimberly Gordon, left, and Paige McLellan. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Kimberly Gordon and Paige McLellan first met in 2012 as third graders, and quickly became best friends forever. The two have been nearly inseparable since, but now are spending more time together as Boothbay’s newest entrepreneurs. Gordon and McLellan started Harbor Nutrition in January. The business at 473 Wiscasset Road specializes in energy drinks and protein shakes.
Harbor Nutrition features a menu with a unique mixture of ingredients created by McLellan and Gordon. The menu includes flavored protein shakes (fruity, vanilla, chocolate, peanut butter, and coffee lovers), energizing teas made from an herbal tea with aloe added for digestion. Gordon said the teas come in three categories (basic, boosted and lit)